About the Project

IrCaBriTT is a four-year research project (2018–2022) funded by the Laureate Awards Scheme of the Irish Research Council (IRC) and based at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway).

Our research focusses on a group of ninth- and tenth-century manuscripts preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), the Bibliothèque Municipale Toussaint of Angers, the Bibliothèque Municipale 'Suzanne Martinet' of Laon, and the Médiathèque of Orléans:

• Angers, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 476.
• Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 422.
• Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 182.
• Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B.
• Paris, BnF, Lat. 7418A.

Project Team

• Principal Investigator: Dr Jacopo Bisagni (Classics).
• Post-doctoral Researcher: Dr Sarah Corrigan.
• PhD student: Ms Paula Harrison.
• Technical support and Website development: Mr David Kelly (Moore Institute).

We wish to thank for their support:

• Our colleagues in Classics at NUI, Galway, Prof. Michael Clarke, Dr Edward Herring, Dr Peter Kelly, and Dr Pádraic Moran (creator of the new database MIrA).
• Our colleagues in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at NUI Galway.
• Our colleagues in the IRC Laureate-funded project The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe (IFCE), led by Dr Immo Warntjes at Trinity College, Dublin.
• Our colleagues in the IRC Laureate-funded Republic of Conscience project, led by Prof. Rióna Ní Fhrighil at NUI Galway.
• The staff of the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, with a particular mention for Prof. Dan Carey and Ms Martha Shaughnessy.
• Dr Jacopo Bisagni's past and present (non-IrCaBriTT) PhD students: Dr Jason O'Rorke, Ms Grace Attwood, Ms Maria Chiara Marzolla, Ms Érin McKinney, Elena Nordio,
• Dr Mark Stansbury (creator of the Earlier Latin Manuscripts database together with Mr David Kelly).
• Prof. Pierre-Yves Lambert (EPHE, Paris).
• Prof. Hervé Le Bihan (Université Rennes 2).
• Mr Jean-Luc Deuffic (editor of Pecia).
• Dr Stefan Hagel (University of Vienna, creator of the Classical Text Editor).
• Dr Marina Ansaldo.
• Mr François Carrel (who designed our lovely logo!).
• Dr Lise Carrel-Bisagni.

Please do not hesitate to send additions and corrections for any section of the website to Dr Jacopo Bisagni, at jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie.

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