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50 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND.
At Gheel, near Malines in Belgium, is the old church of St.
Dympna, a king’s daughter who ssed srom Slieve Betha in
Monaghan in the seventh century, and who founded the church
at Ghent, where she has always been honoured as the patron
saint of the insane. Her crosier, portions of which are illustrated
in this volume, is preserved in the Museum of the Royal Irish
Academy in Dublin. The church in which her relics are de-
posited is a spacious old building just outside the village of
Gheel.
At Cambray, there is a Codex (a.d. 763) finely ornamented in
the Irish style, No. 684, which contains canons of the Irish
Council held a.d. 684. A “Life of St. Bridget,” that came from
Longford, may also be found in the monastery of St. Autbert
in Cambray.
In the public library of Leyden, a Priscian, written by Dub-
thach, circa 838, may be seen; a fragment of the New Testament
in the University Library of Utrecht, while in the Burgundian
Library of Brussels is preserved the large collection of Irish
manuscripts brought from Louvain.
BOOK SATCHELS.
EFORE we pass on from the subject of the Illu-
minated Books of Ancient Ireland, it will
be necessary to mention the leathern
satchels called fiolaires, in which
these books were carried or were
hung upon the walls of the chamber
in the monastery or tower where they were
preserved, such as that called the Satchel
of the Book of Armagh, the Satchel of
the Irish Missal at Corpus Christi, Cam-
bridge, and the Satchel of St. Moedoc’s Reliquary; Mr. West-
wood has described the Satchel in Cambridge as of black
At Gheel, near Malines in Belgium, is the old church of St.
Dympna, a king’s daughter who ssed srom Slieve Betha in
Monaghan in the seventh century, and who founded the church
at Ghent, where she has always been honoured as the patron
saint of the insane. Her crosier, portions of which are illustrated
in this volume, is preserved in the Museum of the Royal Irish
Academy in Dublin. The church in which her relics are de-
posited is a spacious old building just outside the village of
Gheel.
At Cambray, there is a Codex (a.d. 763) finely ornamented in
the Irish style, No. 684, which contains canons of the Irish
Council held a.d. 684. A “Life of St. Bridget,” that came from
Longford, may also be found in the monastery of St. Autbert
in Cambray.
In the public library of Leyden, a Priscian, written by Dub-
thach, circa 838, may be seen; a fragment of the New Testament
in the University Library of Utrecht, while in the Burgundian
Library of Brussels is preserved the large collection of Irish
manuscripts brought from Louvain.
BOOK SATCHELS.
EFORE we pass on from the subject of the Illu-
minated Books of Ancient Ireland, it will
be necessary to mention the leathern
satchels called fiolaires, in which
these books were carried or were
hung upon the walls of the chamber
in the monastery or tower where they were
preserved, such as that called the Satchel
of the Book of Armagh, the Satchel of
the Irish Missal at Corpus Christi, Cam-
bridge, and the Satchel of St. Moedoc’s Reliquary; Mr. West-
wood has described the Satchel in Cambridge as of black