Identifier: journalofroyalso506roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects:
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
he plate given by F. Keller and in the-copy by William Reeves the drawing, reproduced from a tracing,gives the reverse of the original; 2 so that the lance-bearer, wdio ison the left side of Christ in the original, is here represented on theright. Fig. 1. 2° The Southampton Psalter (St. Johns College Library,.Cambridge, No. 59).—This Irish MS. is considered by Dr. 1 It is both a duty and a pleasure for me to offer my grateful thanks inthis place to Messrs. R. I. Best and Henry S. Crawford, as well as tothe Librarians of St. Johns College, Cambridge, and of DurhamCathedral, who have given me such valuable assistance in procuring,the photographs which are reproduced in this article. 2 Ferd. Keller, Bilder unci Schriftziige in den irischen Manuscriptender schweizerischen JBibliothehen (Mittheilungen der antiquarischenGesellschdft in Zurich, vii, 1951, pi. 5); William Reeves, EarlyIrishCalligraphy (Ulster Journal of Archaeology, viii, 1860, facing p. 301). Plate VII) ;_To face page 128
Text Appearing After Image:
• --<-,.•,-. IEISH EEPEEiSEiNTATIONS OF THE CRUCIFIXION 12(J Montague Khodes James to date from the 10th century (?). He-gives a description of fol. 35v showing the Crucifixion, in hiaDescriptive Caial. of the MSS. in the Library of St. JohnsCollege, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1913, p. 78). Fig.2. 3° The Durham Gospels (Chapter Library Durham : A. ii. 17).—This MS. was written in England in the 8th century. It isdifficult, writes Mr. C. H. Turner, not to connect it with thegreat days of Jarrow, Wearmouth and Lindisfarne, 3 where theartistic influence of the Scotti was very powerful.4 This picture,conformable to the Irish models, is described in the text accom-panying plate 30 in the New Pala30graphical Society Album. Thepicture itself is in such a decayed condition that it is impossibleto give a satisfactory reproduction of it. Fig. 3. 4° The Wurzburg Epistles of St. Paul (University Library,Wiirzburg, Mp. th. f. 69), a MS. of the 8th century, wrongly con-nected with St. Kilian.

Note About Images