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An Insular odyssey: manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond / Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahony & Jane Maxwell, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book of Kells.
- Meehan, Bernard.
- Manuscripts, Irish.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Ireland.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Irish.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Ireland.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Ireland--Civilization--To 1172.
- Ireland.
- Civilization.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Between the seventh and twelfth centuries, a distinctive form of script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts produced in the milieu of the Irish church. Although associated principally with Britain and Ireland, Ireland's reputation for learning and the missionary activity associated with Irish foundations mean that today Insular texts are found in library collections across the Continent and beyond. Arising from recent research at Trinity College Dublin, and marking the retirement of its eminent scholar of Insular manuscripts, Dr Bernard Meehan, this book examines Irish manuscript culture from a broad range of perspectives."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Bernard Meehan: a personal recollection / Peter Fox
- Hagiography or history?: early medieval approaches to establishing origin and provenance for Insular copies of Scripture / Michelle P. Brown
- Wandering hands: Usserianus Primus and the movements of scripts / Mark Stansbury
- The earliest Echternach liturgical manuscript fragments: Irish or Anglo-Saxon? / Dáibhi Ó Cróinín
- How many cows did it take to make the Book of Kells? / Denis Casey
- Examining the Book of Dimma, the scribe Dianchride and the Gospel of John / John Gillis, Bernard Meehan
- Shining a light on the pigments of early Irish manuscripts / Susie Bioletti and Allyson Smith
- Faint steps: a note on the transmission of materials and techniques among goldsmith, illuminator and scribe / Paul Mullarkey
- Cognition, colour and number in the Book of Durrow and other Insular Gospel books / Heather Pulliam
- The circular drawing in the Book of Mulling and its relationship to the Fleury Prayer Book / Dominique Barhet-Massin
- Reused, rescued, recycled: the art historical and palaeographic contexts of the Irish fragments, St Gallen Codex 1395 / Carol A. Farr
- Monastic dress and the appearance of sanctity: the Evangelists' shoes / Colleen M. Thomas
- "Oh Lord, make haste to help me": prayer and imagery atop Canon table II in the Book of Kells / William Endres
- God is in the detail: observations on the Book of Kells, folios 8r and 13or / Felicity O'Mahony
- Fragments of a Latin Gospel book in Insular majuscule similar to the script of the Book of Kells / Francis Newton, Robert G. Babcock
- The Garland of Howth (TCD MS 56) / Rachel Moss
- Initial wanderings: continuity and development of the smaller initials in Irish manuscripts, c. 500-c. 1500 / Timothy O'Neill
- Exhibiting the Lindisfarne Gospels / Claire Breay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781846826337
- 1846826330
- OCLC:
- 968776293
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