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20 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND.
in a certain state of civilisation.” The divergent spiral or trumpet
pattern, and diagonal patterns, along with those of a later style
formed of interlaced bands, animals, etc., are the ’ prevailing
designs here. There is no sign of any vegetable forms being
used. The book was preserved at Durrow, a small town in the
barony of Ballycowen, where St. Columba founded an abbey a.d.
546. At the Reformation this book was given to the library of
Trinity College, Dublin.
them, which I have seen tried, partly by myself
on that book of them which is at Dorowe
(Durrow) in the King’s Co., for I saw the
ignorant man that had the same in his custodie,
when sickness came on cattle, for their remedy,
put water on the book and suffer it to rest
therein; and saw also cattle return thereby to
their sormer state ; and the book receive no loss.”
However marvellous was the skill of the
scribe of the “Book of Kells,” or that of the
Columba who, in the “ Book of Durrow,” tells
us that he executed his work in the space
of twelve days, none surpassed Ferdom-
N the Annals of Clonmacnois the translator, Connell
Mageoghegan, has alluded to the belief in Ireland
respecting the peculiar property of St. Columba’s MSS.
in resisting the inssuence of moisture, in which
he refers to the “ Book of Durrow”:
“ He, i.e. Columba, wrote 300 books
with his own hand. They were all New
Testaments; he left a book to each of his
churches in the kingdom, which books
have a strange property, which is, that if
they, or any of them, had sunk to the
bottom of the deepest waters, they would
not lose one letter, or sign, or character of
in a certain state of civilisation.” The divergent spiral or trumpet
pattern, and diagonal patterns, along with those of a later style
formed of interlaced bands, animals, etc., are the ’ prevailing
designs here. There is no sign of any vegetable forms being
used. The book was preserved at Durrow, a small town in the
barony of Ballycowen, where St. Columba founded an abbey a.d.
546. At the Reformation this book was given to the library of
Trinity College, Dublin.
them, which I have seen tried, partly by myself
on that book of them which is at Dorowe
(Durrow) in the King’s Co., for I saw the
ignorant man that had the same in his custodie,
when sickness came on cattle, for their remedy,
put water on the book and suffer it to rest
therein; and saw also cattle return thereby to
their sormer state ; and the book receive no loss.”
However marvellous was the skill of the
scribe of the “Book of Kells,” or that of the
Columba who, in the “ Book of Durrow,” tells
us that he executed his work in the space
of twelve days, none surpassed Ferdom-
N the Annals of Clonmacnois the translator, Connell
Mageoghegan, has alluded to the belief in Ireland
respecting the peculiar property of St. Columba’s MSS.
in resisting the inssuence of moisture, in which
he refers to the “ Book of Durrow”:
“ He, i.e. Columba, wrote 300 books
with his own hand. They were all New
Testaments; he left a book to each of his
churches in the kingdom, which books
have a strange property, which is, that if
they, or any of them, had sunk to the
bottom of the deepest waters, they would
not lose one letter, or sign, or character of