TLRH | Middle English Manuscripts at Trinity

Recorded June 1, 2021. A celebration of John Scattergood's
Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and
Some Old English, organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print
Cultures Research Theme in partnership with the Trinity Long Room
Hub. To over a million visitors a year, Trinity is synonymous with
the Book of Kells, But that ninth-century Irish manuscript is only
part of the story. Ranging in date from the fifth century to the
sixteenth and in origin from across Western Europe, Trinity’s six
hundred western medieval manuscripts contain languages from Latin
and Greek to Old Irish, Welsh, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian,
Provencal and Vaudois. Over eighty of them contain English, and,
until the publication of The Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts
Containing Middle English and Some Old English by John Scattergood
with Niamh Patwell and Emma Williams by Four Courts Press in April
2021, this fascinating and important subsection of the collection
remained undescribed. This celebration honours this seminal event,
with a tribute to Professor Scattergood’s work and an appraisal of
the important research it will facilitate. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/