Cumdachs and Polaires: Medieval Irish Book Shrines and Book Satchels


Cumdachs

The Soiscal Molaise, and a pen-and-ink illustration of the shrine.

Photo: Lucas, p.122 Illustration: Stokes, p. 80


The Stowe Missal Shrine, and a pen-and-ink illustration of the shrine.

Photo: Lucas, p.129 Illustration: Stokes, p.82


The Shrine of the Book of Dimma

Illustration: Stokes, p.83


The Misach, and a picture of theback panel of the shrine

Photos: Armstrong, pp.105 and 108


The Lough Kinale Book Shrine

Photo: Kelly, p.169


Side Panel of the Cathach

Photo: O Floinn, p.182


Polaires

The Satchel of the Book of Armagh

Photo: Buckley, p.300


The Satchel in Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Photo: Buckley, p.302


Sources

Armstrong, E.C.R.; Crawford, H.S.; Lawlor, H.J. The Reliquary Known as the Misach. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland vol. LII, part II, 1922. pp.105-112.

Buckley, J.J. Some Early Ornamented Leatherwork. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland vol. XLV, part IV, 1915. pp.300-309.

Kelly, Eamonn P. The Lough Kinale Book-Shrine. In: ed. R. Michael Spearman and John Higgitt. The Age of Migrating Ideas. Alan Sutton Publishing: Dover, New Hampshire. 1993. pp.168-174.

Lucas, A.T. Treasures of Ireland: Irish Pagan and Early Christian Art. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 1973.

O Floinn, Raghnall. Schools of Metalworking in Eleventh- and Twelfth- Century Ireland. In: ed. Michael Ryan. Ireland and Insular Art A.D. 500-1200. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 1987. pp.179-187.

Stokes, Margaret. Early Christian Art in Ireland. First published in 1887, revised by G.N. Count Plunkett 1911. Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press. 1972.


Harry Miller -hmiller@eskimo.com

Created 3/7/96, last updated 3/10/96