Codex InsulensisTextUCD MS F 1UCD LS F 1laLatinLaidin1600-16991627[i-x] pp. , 1-304 pp.[i-x] lgh. , 1-304 lgh.31 cm x 20.5 cmHagiographyNaomhsheanchasCreated by Franciscan Br. John Goolde, 1627. The manuscript was found in the papers of John Colgan after his death, and later circulated among various Franciscan houses in Dublin. Formerly in the Library of the Franciscan Friary, Merchant’s Quay, it was subsequently moved to Dún Mhuire, Killiney.PaperPáipéarModern conservation binding, manuscript rebound in November 2024 by Benjamin Van de Netering.Nua-cheangailte, Samhain 2024, le Benjamin Van de Wetering ó Cheardlann Ceangail an Dama.Br. John GooldeFranciscan ArchivesCartlann na bProinsiasachOxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485 & MS Rawlinson B 505Rodent damage at the upper centre folds of the first two sections; glue stains at p. 265/266; marginal tears pp.130; 287, 289, 291; abraded spine with worn outer section folds due to spine exposure leading to some leaf detachments, pp. 65/66 and 79/80. Old stable repairs at pp. 293, 285. Minor water staining on upper edge. Manuscript was conserved in 2024.ms_rights: Copyright University College Dublin; Copyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.Rodent damage at the upper centre folds of the first two sections; glue stains at p. 265/266; marginal tears pp.130; 287, 289, 291; abraded spine with worn outer section folds due to spine exposure leading to some leaf detachments, pp. 65/66 and 79/80. Old stable repairs at pp. 293, 285. Minor water staining on upper edge. Manuscript was conserved in 2024.ms_rights: Cóipcheart ag Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath; Iomhá Foinse ag Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath.Transcript of the so-called Codex Insulensis, apparently named for Saints’ Island in Lough Ree, preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 485 and MS Rawlinson B 505, containing medieval Latin Lives of Irish saints. Of the thirty-nine lives in the Codex Insulensis, MS F1 comprises thirty-three; the omitted saints are Patrick, Columba, Brigit, Fursa, Laurence O’Toole, and Colman of Dromore.Richard Sharpe, *Medieval Irish Saints’ Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae* (Oxford, 1991)Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County* ed. M. Morris and F. O’Ferrall (Dublin, 2010), 39–50.Charles Plummer, ‘On Two Collections of Latin Lives of Irish Saints in the Bodleian Library, *Rawl. B. 485* and *Rawl. B. 505*’, *Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie* 5, 429–454Pádraig Ó Riain, ‘Longford Priories and Their Manuscripts: All Saints and Abbeyderg’, in *Longford History and SocietyUCD Archives, Dublin, IrelandUCD Archives, Baile Átha Cliath, ÉireUniversity College DublinAn Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath