This second part of our work includes the ancient inscriptions in the Celtic languages, or in Latin, written in the Half-Uncial character; the script of Saxon and Irish MSS., which is altogether Christian so far as the islands are concerned. It is the immediate parent of the alphabet in whose letters the Irish language has been written and printed down to the present day, but fundamentally there was nothing essentially 'Irish' about it — it was merely an adaptation of the cursive script of Latin of about the fourth century A.D., and doubtless was originally carried into Northern Europe by Christian Missionaries and their attendant scribes.
Author(s): Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Series: Irish Manuscripts Commission
Publisher: Stationery Office
Year: 1949
Language: English
Pages: 294
City: Dublin
Introduction
The Half-Uncial Inscriptions of Ireland:
Province of Connaught 1
Leinster 23
Munster 88
Ulster 111
The Half-Uncial Inscriptions of Wales 128
The Half-Uncial Inscriptions of England 176
The Half-Uncial Inscriptions of the Isle of Man 190
The Half-Uncial Inscriptions of Scotland 192
Appendix 195
Index Verborum 204
Index Locorum 211
List of Inscriptions of Kilpeacan slabs 213
Plates I-LXVII
Corrigenda
