Identifier: pictorialdescrip19ward (find matches)
Title: A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours ..
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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, a copy of the FourGospels dating from the seventh century, elaborately andexquisitely illuminated, perhaps the most beautiful book inthe world ; the introductory pages, the capital letters atthe commencement of each book, and also at the beginningof every chapter and verse, exceed in splendour of designanything which can be seen elsewhere. Here too may beseen, amongst other treasures, the Book of Burrow, and theembossed leather case of the ninth-century Book of Armagh.On the wall hangs the roll of the famous independent IrishParliament; Grattans signature is the last but one. Thesignatures of Parnell (grandfather of Charles Stewart Par-nell). Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and many other famous menare here. The other exhibits include first-folio editions of Shake-speare, and of Spensers Faerie Queen ; finely illuminatedaddresses to the University on the occasion of its threehundredth anniversary; specimens of old Irish broochesand other ornaments, and of the ancient Ogham form ofwriting. g
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