The Stowe MissalLeabhar Aifrinn StoweText1238RIA MS D ii 3ARÉ LS D i i 3lagaIrishLatinLaidinGaeilge700-799800-89967 ff.67 fóilió15 × 12 cmProseReligious TractPoetryFilíochtPrósTráchtas CráifeachThe Stowe Missal may have been written in Tallaght, Co. Dublin, as the abbot of the priory, St Máel Ruain, is commemorated in the Mass. According to the first inscription on the cumdach or shrine, it was in the monastery of St Ruadhan in Lorrha, Co. Tipperary, c. 1050, and recent researches indicate that it may have been written there. The Missal was named ‘Stowe’ because, in the 19th century, it was part of a collection of manuscripts in the library of the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, England, which was sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham. In 1883 it was purchased by the British Government and deposited in the Royal Irish Academy.Seans gur scríobhadh Leabhar Aifrinn Stowe i dTamhlacht, Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath, toisc go ndéantar comóradh ar Naomh Máel Ruain, ab na prióireachta, san Aifreann. De réir an chumhdaigh, bhí an leabhar aifrinn i mainistir Naomh Ruadhain in Lorrha, Contae Thiobraid Árann, c. 1050, agus tugann roinnt den taighde is déanaí le fios go bhfuil seans maith gur scríobhadh ansin é. Tugadh Leabhar Aifrinn Stowe ar an lámhscríbhinn mar, sa 19ú haois, ba chuid de bhailiúchán lámhscríbhinní i leabharlann Diúc Buckingham i dTeach Stowe in Buckinghamshire, Sasana, í. Díoladh an lámhscríbhinn in 1849 le hIarla Ashburnham. In 1883 cheannaigh Rialtas na Breataine an lámhscríbhinn agus chuir siad i dtaisce í in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann.VellumMeamramAnthropomorphicDecorative InitialsZoomorphicMíolchruthachTúslitreacha OrnáideachAntrapamorfachround the three outer edges there are strips of kid skins 2cm wide stained with red.covered with uncoloured VellumBound in boards of oakclúdaithe le Meamram gan dathar na trí imill seachtracha tá stiallanna de chraiceann gabhair de leithne 2cm daite le dearg.Ceangailte le boird darachSonidMáel CaíchStowe and Ashburnham collectionBailiúchán Stowe agus AshburnhamFor further reading on this manuscript search the online bibliography available at: http://bill.celt.dias.ieTuilleadh léithoireachta faoin lámhscríbhinn seo ar fáil i leabharliosta ar líne ag: http://bill.celt.dias.ieCopyright Royal Irish AcademyCopyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.Cóipcheart ag Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireannIomhá Foinse ag Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath.RIA MS D ii 3, The Stowe Missal, is a Latin composite manuscript dating from between the 8th and 9th centuries. It consists of two separate manuscripts which were bound together for no evident reason other than the leaves were of the same size. The first manuscript (11 folios) contains excerpts from the Gospel according to St John. The Missal proper (56 folios) is in the second manuscript and it contains the Ordinary and Canon of the Mass, the Order of Baptism and the Order of Visitation of the Sick, Extreme Unction and Communion. At the end (ff 65-7) there is an Irish tract on the Mass, three Irish spells against loss of eyesight, injury by thorns and disease of the urine.Lámhscríbhinn cumaisc Laidine ón 8ú nó 9ú haois is ea RIA LS D ii 3, Leabhar Aifrinn Stowe. Tá dhá lámhscríbhinn i gceist, agus ceanglaíodh le chéile iad, is cosúil, mar gheall go raibh na fóilió ar aon tomhais. Sa chéad lámhscríbhinn (11 fóilió), tá sleachta as Gospel Naomh Eoin. Sa phríomhleabhar aifrinn, an dara lámhscríbhinn (56 fóilió), tá Aifreann, Ord an Bhaisteadh, Ord Cuairte na n-Easlán, an Ola Dhéanach agus Comaoineach. Ag an deireadh (fóilió 65-7) tá Tráchtas Gaeilge ar an aifreann, trí gheis i gcoinne daille, gortú ar dhealga agus galair múin.P. McGurk, Latin Gospel books from A.D. 400 to A.D. 800 (Paris, etc., 1961), no. 82, p. 78F.J. Byrne, ‘The Stowe Missal’ in Great books of Ireland (Thomas Davis Lectures), (Dublin, 1967), 38-50G.F. Warner (ed.), The Stowe Missal (Facsimile and printed text), Henry Bradshaw Society, Vols 31-2 (London, 1906, 1915).J.H. Bernard, ‘On the Stowe St John’, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 30 (1893), 313-24John Ryan, ‘The Mass in the early Irish church’, Studies: an Irish Quarterly Review, 50 (1961), 371-84E. Gwynn, ‘The Stowe Missal’, Irish Church Quarterly, 9 (1916), 119-33P. Ní Chatháin, ‘The liturgical background of the Derrynaflan altar service’, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 110 (1980), 127-48Bernard Meehan, ‘Irish pocket Gospel books’ in C. Breay and B. Meehan (eds), The St Cuthbert Gospel: studies on the insular manuscripts of the Gospel of John (BL, Add. MS 8900), (London, 2015), 83-102Timothy O’Neill, ‘Quills, inks and Vellums’ in Bernadette Cunningham and Siobhán Fitzpatrick (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library (Dublin, 2009), 45-9Pádraig Ó Riain, ‘The shrine of the Stowe Missal re-dated’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 91 C 10 (1991), 285-95Thomas O’Loughlin, ‘The Stowe Missal: the eucharist as refreshment’ in O’Loughlin, Celtic theology: humanity, world and God in early Irish writings (London & New York, 2000), 128-46Pádraig Ó Riain, ‘The Stowe Missal’ in Bernadette Cunningham and Siobhán Fitzpatrick (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library (Dublin, 2009), 10-15E.A. Löwe (ed.), Codices Latini antiquiores ..., (Oxford, 1972), 267-8F. Henry, Irish art in the early Christian period to A.D. 800 (revised ed., London, 1965), 43, 161-2, 199-202, 205, plate 112Timothy O'Neill, The Irish hand (Cork, 2014), 18-19, 80-1T.F. O’Rahilly, ‘The history of the Stowe Missal’, Ériu, 10 (1926-8), 95-109J.H. Todd, ‘On the ancient Irish Missal and its silver box, etc.’ Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 23 (1856), 3-37Whitley Stokes, ‘The Irish passages in the Stowe Missal’, Zeitschrift für vergl. Sprachf., N.F. 6(5), 1882Siobhán Fitzpatrick, ‘The Stowe Missal: its provenance and recent history’ in George Cunningham (ed.), The Roscrea Conference: commemorating forty conferences 1987-2007 at Mount St Joseph Abbey (Roscrea, 2007), 1-6B. McCarthy, ‘On the Stowe Missal’, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 27 C (1885), 135-267G. Mac Niocaill, ‘Fragments d’un coutumier monastique irlandais du VIIIe-IXe siècle’, Scriptorium 15 (1961)Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, 1943), Fasc. 27: 3431Dublin, IrelandBaile Átha Cliath, ÉireRoyal Irish AcademyAcadamh Ríoga na hÉireann