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Book of Durrow

LC control no.n 85370503
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Uniform title headingBook of Durrow
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Variant(s)Book of Colum-cille
Columba's Book
Durrow, Book of
Special noteAuthorized access point represents the manuscript as a physical entity, including its decoration. For textual contents of the manuscript, use: Bible. Gospels. Latin. Book of Durrow
Found inRösner, C. Das Book of Durrow im Spiegel der Forschung zur hibernosächsischen Kunst, c1985: p. 12 (Gospel book named after Durrow Monastery in Ireland fndd. 546; chiefly referred to in the very earliest sources as Book of Colum-cille or Columba's Book) p. 122 (written ca. 675, probably in Northumbria) p. 124 (contains both Irish and Anglo-Saxon elements)
Ency. Brit., 15th ed. (Durrow, Book of, gospel book, Trinity College Library, Dublin; illuminated c. 7th cent. in the Hiberno-Saxon style at the Durrow Abbey in Ireland)
New Cath. ency., 1967 (Durrow, Book of, in Trinity Coll., Dublin; a richly decorated vellum codex of the 4 Gospels ... written and decorated in the Province of the Columbian Mission in Northumbria or Ireland, c. 675)