TAG: National Museum of Ireland
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(Courtesy Eamonn Kelly) -
Artifacts July 1, 2011
Early Christian Illustrated Manuscript
The faddan more psalter offers a tantalizing glimpse of the extraordinary efforts that early Christians in Ireland invested in illustrating their religious manuscripts. This manuscript was most likely handcrafted in a monastery where Irish monks and missionaries combined copies of Biblical text with both traditional and nontraditional iconography.
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