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8.8 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND.
This list of the Twelve Apostles is found in the commemoration in
the Canon of the Mass; but in the Roman Missal the names are
placed differently, thus :—
Petri, Pauli, Andree, Jacobi, Joannis, Philippi,
Bartholomaei, Thomje, Matthaei, Jacobi,
Thaddjei, Simonis.
It is also in the Litany of the Saints as given in an old Irish
MS. at St. Gall, but there is a slight difference in the order of the
names. It is also found in the Bobio Missal printed by Mabillon,
“Museum Italicum” (t. i. 279), the only difference being that
the order of names at the end slightly varies.
No example has hitherto been found in Great Britain of the
same class as this exquisite chalice. Indeed, with a few excep-
tions, such as the chalice in the Abbey of Witten in the Tyrol,
this is a unique example of the two-handled chalices used in the
earliest Christian times.
For illustrations and further particulars of this chalice, see
Paper by Edwin, third Earl of Dunraven—“Transactions of the
Royal Irish Academy,” vol. xxiv. p. 433 (1869).
BOOK-SHRINES.
OOK-SHRINES appear to be of rare occur-
rence save in Ireland. Elsewhere we find
that the sacred writings had splendid bind-
ings ; one side at least being often of silver
or gold, studded with jewels, so that the
book thus covered added to the general
splendour of the altars on which they were
placed. But a different sentiment seemed
at work in Ireland, where the book was held
as a sacred heirloom by the successors of
the Patron Saint, whose memory they had
cherished for perhaps five hundred years. Here
the o’d book was lest untouched, as something whose value
This list of the Twelve Apostles is found in the commemoration in
the Canon of the Mass; but in the Roman Missal the names are
placed differently, thus :—
Petri, Pauli, Andree, Jacobi, Joannis, Philippi,
Bartholomaei, Thomje, Matthaei, Jacobi,
Thaddjei, Simonis.
It is also in the Litany of the Saints as given in an old Irish
MS. at St. Gall, but there is a slight difference in the order of the
names. It is also found in the Bobio Missal printed by Mabillon,
“Museum Italicum” (t. i. 279), the only difference being that
the order of names at the end slightly varies.
No example has hitherto been found in Great Britain of the
same class as this exquisite chalice. Indeed, with a few excep-
tions, such as the chalice in the Abbey of Witten in the Tyrol,
this is a unique example of the two-handled chalices used in the
earliest Christian times.
For illustrations and further particulars of this chalice, see
Paper by Edwin, third Earl of Dunraven—“Transactions of the
Royal Irish Academy,” vol. xxiv. p. 433 (1869).
BOOK-SHRINES.
OOK-SHRINES appear to be of rare occur-
rence save in Ireland. Elsewhere we find
that the sacred writings had splendid bind-
ings ; one side at least being often of silver
or gold, studded with jewels, so that the
book thus covered added to the general
splendour of the altars on which they were
placed. But a different sentiment seemed
at work in Ireland, where the book was held
as a sacred heirloom by the successors of
the Patron Saint, whose memory they had
cherished for perhaps five hundred years. Here
the o’d book was lest untouched, as something whose value