'A MIRACLE OF LEARNING' by Dr Daibhi O Croinin, Katharine Sims (Editor), Mr. Toby Barnard (Editor) ( 9781859282939 )

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'A MIRACLE OF LEARNING'
STUDIES IN MANUSCRIPTS AND IRISH LEARNING: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF WILLIAM O'SULLIVAN

By:

Dr Daibhi O Croinin, Katharine Sims (Editor), Mr. Toby Barnard (Editor)

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1859282938

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 1998

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344

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Some of the 14 essays focus on technical issues of manuscripts such as the earliest dry-point glosses in Codex Usserianus Primus, the Book of Kells and the Corbie Psalter, and the travels of manuscripts from the continent to Ireland. Others provide information extracted from manuscripts ranging from

Synopsis:

This volume celebrates the work of William O'Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland, the place of the learned and literate in that world, and its relations with Britain, Europe and America. Some of these essays clarify technical problems in the making of famous manuscripts, and bring out for the first time their indebtedness to or influence over other manuscripts. Others provide unexpected new information about the reigns of Edward I and James I, Irish provincial society, the process and progress of religious change and the links between settlements in Ireland and North American colonization.

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Includes 16 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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