Textual and visual material consisting mainly of notes, drawings and plans, documenting early Christian Irish art, its inspiration and the extent of its influence in Europe, in areas including architecture, sculpture, manuscripts, metalwork, ivory and textiles.

[Research notes and pencil sketches of decoration, references, reproduction requests for manuscripts held in Laurentian Library (Florence).]

[Paris Manuscripts. Pencil sketches in colour of decoration, all mounted for inclusion in the catalogue of images. Those with numbers on the mounts have photographs already in the photographic collection.]

[Research notes relating to Laurentiana Plut 78.19 and pencil sketches relating to the decoration of the manuscript.]

[Handwritten research notes regarding the background to the Book of Cerne (Cambridge).]

[A sketch of an illuminated letter from Manuscript E.4.2 (Liber Hymnorum) Fol. 14r, in Trinity College Dublin Library.]

[Pencil sketches in colour of decoration from various folios from Galba A.V. (British Museum).]

[Paris Manuscripts. Facsimile images all mounted for inclusion in the catalogue of images. Those with numbers on the mounts have photographs already in the photographic collection.]

[Research notes and colour pencil sketches of decoration in the Rosslyn Missal (Edinburgh).]

[Notes and papers relating to the 5éme Congés International des Critques d'Art.]

[A printed and a typed copy of the index for volume II of Irish Art.]

[Handwritten research notes and pencil sketches of the Drummond Missal (British Museum).]

[Research notes and pencil sketches, relating to decoration and background of the Rawlinson G.167 manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

[Gospels of St Chad (Lichfield). Coloured pencil sketches of illuminations on pp. 5, 143, 218, 219, 220, 221.]

[Handwritten research notes relating to the decoration of particular folios from Manuscript Auct. D.2.16 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.]

[Printed proofs of the second volume of Irish Art with handwritten corrections.]

[Notes relating to architecture around Europe, some for inclusion in volume II of Irish Art.]

[Coloured pencil sketches of illuminations on ff. lr, 49v, 51v, 52r, 84v, 85r, 127r taken from MS Auct. D.11.19 (Bodleian Library, Oxford).]

[Research notes and pencil sketches including three pages of schematic analysis of the gatherings of Corpus Gospels, MS 122, queries (Bodleian Library, Oxford).]

[Letter from J. Edenburgen (Lynn House, Gillsland Road, Edinburgh) to William Frazer, concerning the miniatures of the Queen Margaret Gospel Book and its reproduction, sponsored by the Marquis of Bute.]

[Various ballads printed on an uncut sheet and illustrated with woodcuts.]

[Various ballads printed on an uncut sheet and illustrated with woodcuts.]

[Various ballads printed on an uncut sheet and illustrated with woodcuts.]

The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies.