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Cathach of Colum Cille
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| The Cathach is the oldest extant Irish illuminated manuscript, dated to c. AD 600. The surviving 58 folios contain Psalms 30:10 to 105:13 (Vulgate version). Legend has it that Colum Cille copied the manuscript from a psalter lent to him by St Finnian. A dispute over the ownership of the copy was resolved by the King of Tara in a very early copyright ruling: 'To every cow her calf, so to every book its copy.' A full-colour 84-page booklet introduces readers to the provenance, art history and biblical content of the manuscript. The accompanying interactive CD-ROM presents the manuscript in digitised form, with a brief overview of its origins and art history. The manuscript folios can be read against a transcription by H.J. Lawlor or an English version of the relevant psalms. A zoom facility up to 400% allows art historians, calligraphers, palaeographers and other researchers to examine the script and illuminated initials in detail. The CD-ROM has a minimum recommended spec of 233Mhz with 32mb of RAM and is compatible with both Mac and PC. EUR 40.00 / USD 40.00
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You can view a Shockwave demonstration of the Cathach CD-ROM. The demonstration is 1 Mb in size, which should take about 3 minutes to download on a 56k modem. |
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