ISBN-13: 9781846826337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 334 str.
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 TCD, 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. Contents: Dominique Barbet-Massin (Bibliotheque Municipale de Grenoble), The colophon drawing in the Book of Mulling; Susie Bioletti (TCD), Pigment analysis in Insular manuscripts; Claire Breay (BL), Exhibiting the Lindisfarne Gospels; Michelle Browne (emerita, U London), Medieval approaches to establishing origin and provenance for Insular copies of scripture; Denis Casey (MU), How many cows does it take to make the Book of Kells?; David Dumville (U Aberdeen), Bern Burgerbibliothek, Codex 363; William Endres (U Oklahoma), Prayer and the imagery atop canon table II in the Book of Kells; Carol Farr (ind.), Contexts of the Irish fragments, St Gall Codex 1395; Rachel Moss (TCD), Unravelling the strands of the Garland of Howth; Daibhi O Croinin (NUIG), Echternach fragments; Felicity O'Mahony (TCD), Minor decoration in the Book of Kells; Bernard Meehan and John Gillis (TCD), Bindings of the Books of Dimma and Mulling; Paul Mullarkey (NMI), Book shrines; Francis Newton (Duke U) and Robert Babcock (U North Carolina), Unstudied fragments of a Latin gospel book in Insular half-uncial; Timothy O'Neill (UCC), Continuities in Insular initials; Heather Pulliam (U Edinburgh), Colour and cognition in the Books of Durrow and Lindisfarne; Mark Stansbury (NUIG), Usserianus Primus and the movements of scripts; Colleen Thomas (TCD), Insular evangelists' shoes.