 I have examined, with a magnifying glass, the pages of tho Gospels of Lindisfarne and Book of Kells for hours together," says Professor Westwood, "without ever detecting a false line or an irregular interlacement ; and when it is considered that many...  The Archaeological Journal - Page 2661853Full view - About this book
 | Henry O'Neill - 1863 - 154 pages
...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to have been impossible to have been executed by a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem, not...instance of the minuteness of these details will suffice. I have counted in a small space, scarcely three-quarters of an inch in length by less than half-an-inch... | |
 | Ireland. Public Record Office - 1869 - 1064 pages
...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...but also with what instruments they could have been execi i ted . One instance of the minuteness of these details will suffice to give an idea of this... | |
 | 1913 - 532 pages
...interlacement ; and when it is considered that many of these details consist of spiral lines, and that they are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed...with what instruments they could have been executed.' a In the case of MSS. as distinct from stone work, the following additional, or for the most part additional,... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 1028 pages
...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to have been impossible to have been executed by a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...with what instruments, they could have been executed. The invention and skill displayed, the neatness, precision, and delicacy, far surpass nil that is to... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1881 - 300 pages
...pages of tho Gospels of Lindisfarne and Book of Kells for hours together," says Professor Westwood, "without ever detecting a false line or an irregular...measuring scarcely three-quarters of an inch, by less than half-an-inch in width, in the Book of Armagh, not fewer than one hundred and fifty-eight interlacements... | |
 | Joseph Anderson - 1881 - 310 pages
...pages of the Gospels of Lindisfantc and Book of KelU for hours together," says Professor Westwood, "without ever detecting a false line or an irregular...minuteness of these details will suffice to give an idea of thts peculiarity. I have counted in a small space measuring scarcely three-quarters of an inch, by... | |
 | Richard Lovett - 1888 - 246 pages
...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...have counted in a small space, measuring scarcely three quarters of an inch, by less than half an inch in width, in the Book of Armagh, not fewer than... | |
 | H. E. Tuell - 1898 - 84 pages
...ever detecting a false line or an irregalar interlacement ; when it is considered that many of the details consist of spiral lines and are so minute...instruments they could have been executed. One instance of these details will suffice to give an idea of this peculiarity. I have counted in a small space measuring... | |
 | Douglas Hyde - 1903 - 688 pages
...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...with what instruments they could have been executed. ... I counted in a small space, measuring scarcely three quarters of an inch by less than half an inch... | |
 | 1910 - 924 pages
...details consist of spiral lines and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without compasses, it really seems a problem not only with...what instruments, they could have been executed." At the National Industrial Exhibition in Dublin two years ago, one's eye was caught by case after case... | |
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