Image: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1899) (14598471607)

Description: Identifier: journalofroyalso1899roya (find matches) Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Year: 1849 (1840s) 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: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center 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: worked out its designs with such wonderful skill andpatient elaboration on the pages of the Gospels and Psalters, andtransferred them subsequently to the metal-work and stone-work of theperiod intervening between the age of the best manuscripts and thetwelfth century. This cross is supposed to have been erected to the memory of Colin,a prior, who died in 1510; as it bears the inscription, IIcbc est CruxColini Filii Cristi. On the socket-stone there is a much-worn inscrip-tion which it is impossible to decipher. Cross No 2.—Standing in a pile of masonry at the north-east of thel)riory buildings is the lo vrer stone of the shaft of another cross, 3 feet3 inches high, one of its faces worn smooth, the other covered withintertwining scrollwork of stems, terminating in broad-leaved foliage.This stone is surmounted by a disc which did not belong to it originally,judging from the character of its sculpturing (we are informed that ^ Scotland in Early Christian Times, Second Series, p. 130. Text Appearing After Image: Oronsay Great Cross (Xo. 1). West face. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1899) (14598471607)
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