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An insular odyssey : manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond / Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahony & Jane Maxwell, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2017Description: 334 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781846826337
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 091.09415 M 23
Contents:
Preface / Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahony and Jane Maxwell -- Bernard Meehan: a personal recollection / Peter Fox -- Early medieval approaches to establishing origin and provenance for Insular copies of scripture / Michelle P. Brown -- Usserianus Primus and the movements of scripts / Mark Stansbury -- The earliest Echternach liturgical manuscript fragments: Irish or Anglo-Saxon? / Dáibhí 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 & Allyson Smith -- 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 Barbet-Massin -- 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 -- Prayer and the imagery atop canon table II in the Book of Kells / William Endres -- Observations on the Book of Kells, folios 8r and 130r / 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 -- Continuity and development of the smaller initials in Irish manuscripts, c.500–c.1500 / Timothy O'Neill -- Exhibiting the Lindisfarne Gospels / Claire Breay.
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Preface / Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahony and Jane Maxwell -- Bernard Meehan: a personal recollection / Peter Fox -- Early medieval approaches to establishing origin and provenance for Insular copies of scripture / Michelle P. Brown -- Usserianus Primus and the movements of scripts / Mark Stansbury -- The earliest Echternach liturgical manuscript fragments: Irish or Anglo-Saxon? / Dáibhí 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 & Allyson Smith -- 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 Barbet-Massin -- 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 -- Prayer and the imagery atop canon table II in the Book of Kells / William Endres -- Observations on the Book of Kells, folios 8r and 130r / 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 -- Continuity and development of the smaller initials in Irish manuscripts, c.500–c.1500 / Timothy O'Neill -- Exhibiting the Lindisfarne Gospels / Claire Breay.

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