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| Watermark | Hand with 5-petal flower on stem above; trefoil on glove over letters ‘V O [?]’ |
| Date | 1575 |
| Location of use | ‘Baile in Chuimine’ [Ballycummin] and ‘Baile Tibhaird’ [Ballyhoward/Howardstown], Co. Limerick, Ireland |
| Dimensions | upper part: 45 x 9mm; lower part: 35 x 23 mm; centre not captured |
| Chain-lines | ]17–24–24–24–25–25–24–24–13[ |
| Position | horizontal, across gutter between lines 4 and 5 |
| Process | Canon EOS, backlighting; composite created with Photoshop |
| Source | RIA MS 23 N 10; consists of 28 vellum pages and 132 paper pages; a miscellany of early prose and poetry written by scribes of the Ó Maoil Chonaire family and friends, for their own use. One leaf (pp 137–8) appears to contain second watermark (not captured) consisting of top of pot with part of handle visible. |
| Repository | Royal Irish Academy, Dublin |
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