Public gets first look at ancient book of psalmsBackground here and here and follow the links.
By Grainne Cunningham (Independent.ie)
Wednesday June 08 2011
AFTER hundreds of years lying in a muddy bog, one of the country's most important antiquities went on public display for the first time yesterday.
The Fadden More Psalter, a book of psalms as old as the Book of Kells, was found by turf cutters in a Tipperary bog in 2006.
Conservationists have spent the past five years painstakingly preserving the vellum pages and leather cover and the psalter, which dates from 800AD, now sits centre stage at a new exhibition in the National Museum in Dublin.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Irish bog Psalter now on display in Dublin
THE IRISH BOG PSALTER is now on display in Dublin: