The Irish Hand: Scribes and their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, with an Exemplar of Irish Scripts

Timothy O'Neill

ISBN 10: 0851054110 / ISBN 13: 9780851054117

Published by Dolmen Press, Mountrath, Portlaoise, Ireland, 1984

About this Item

xxviii, 100 pp., 4to, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photos, brown cloth, dustjacket. Fine copy of the book (small bookseller label on bottom of title page) in a very good dustjacket (slight crinkling of the lamination, minor edgewear).

Seller Inventory # 6079

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Irish Hand: Scribes and their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, with an Exemplar of Irish Scripts
• Publisher: Dolmen Press, Mountrath, Portlaoise, Ireland
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851054110
• ISBN 13: 9780851054117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Early manuscripts and paleography

About this title

Synopsis

Presents an anthology and an exemplar of Irish calligraphy over ten centuries. The first part contains full pages chosen from twenty-six of the most famous Irish manuscripts in fine photographic plates, with a commentary which gives an account of the contents and history of each manuscript and notes on the scripts and scribes. The second part examines the evolution of the Irish hand, and, as well as detailed specimens of the scripts described in part one, has some thirty additional examples which trace the tradition of Irish script to our own time.