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Bull
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Bull

Bull
Designation 24 P 15 T1
Watermark Bull
Date 1478
Location of use Rossbrin [Ros Broin], Co Cork, Ireland
Dimensions 65 mm x 40 mm
Chain-lines 35-36-36-37-39-[19
Position landscape, between lines 3 and 4
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Royal Irish Academy MS 24 P 15 (444), pp. 31-2; composite medical manuscript containing 15th- and 16th- century sections; scribe of this section Cairbre Ó Ceannamháin
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
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one-handled jug on two legs; quatrefoil on top over trefoil lid; F B / R in bowl

Watermark one-handled jug on two legs; quatrefoil on top over trefoil lid; F B / R in bowl
Date 1604-1621
Location of use Limerick
Dimensions 60 mm x  25 mm (max.)
Chain-lines gutter -20-20-23-23-20-23-20- foredge
Position between lines 4 and 5,
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Black Book of Limerick, pp 147/148
Repository Limerick Diocesan Archives
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Arms of France and Navarre, in circular frame; quatrefoil above, Maltese cross below; name ‘GIOURNEE’ beneath (= Guillaume Journee, a papermaker of Troyes)

Watermark Arms of France and Navarre, in circular frame; quatrefoil above, Maltese cross below; name ‘GIOURNEE’ beneath (= Guillaume Journee, a papermaker of Troyes)
Date 1608
Location of use Clonmel, Ireland
Dimensions 90 mm x 47 mm
Chain-lines ]-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-[
Position centred on 6 and 7
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Minute Book of Corporation of Clonmel, unnumbered central bifolium (350 x 450 mm) of a set of blanks between ff 49 and 50; same stock of paper throughout. Mark in left side of mould with no countermark.
Repository National Library of Ireland MS 19171
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Pot, one-handled, crescent on top, ‘O/A B’ in bowl

Watermark Pot, one-handled, crescent on top, ‘O/A B’ in bowl
Date 1623–1669; a single watermark throughout book (200 folios)
Location of use Coleraine, Ireland
Dimensions 65 mm x 28 mm
Chain-lines foredge 5>9]-21-22-22-21-21-21-21-22-[1>5 gutter
Position between lines 5 and 6, centre page
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source ‘Acts of the Corporation of Colerain. [sic] from the 4th day of July 1623 to the 29th day of July 1669’, f. 200
Repository Curraghmore House
Rear of Unicorn (complements Unicorn on (e.g,) f. 11)
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Rear of Unicorn (complements Unicorn on (e.g,) f. 11)

Watermark Rear of Unicorn (complements Unicorn on (e.g,) f. 11)
Date c. 1564
Location of use Cambridge, England
Dimensions  6mm x  27mm
Chain-lines gutter 17]-23-23-22-22-22-22-[15 foredge
Position between lines 4 and 5
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Primer of Elizabeth I, f. 12
Repository Farmleigh House, Dublin (collection under ownership of Marsh’s Library)
Unicorn
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Unicorn

Watermark Unicorn
Date c. 1564
Location of use Cambridge, England
Dimensions  44mm x  30mm
Chain-lines gutter 5]-23-23-22-22-22-22-22-[13 foredge
Position between lines 5 and 6,
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Primer of Elizabeth I, f. 11
Repository Farmleigh House, Dublin (collection under ownership of Marsh’s Library)
Crowned trefoil, flanked by initials: P (left) I (right)
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Crowned trefoil, flanked by initials: P (left) I (right)

Watermark Crowned trefoil, flanked by initials: P (left) I (right)
Date second half 16th cent.
Location of use Cambridge (?), England
Dimensions  16mm x 17mm
Chain-lines gutter 28-28-27-27-27-28-27-16-[13 foredge
Position sideways between 3 and 4
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Farmleigh MS IV E 6, pp 414[h]
Repository Farmleigh House, Dublin (collection under ownership of Marsh’s Library)
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St Catherine’s Wheel, three holly leaves above, ?twisted stem below. Identical to Gravell WHL.005.1

St Catherine’s Wheel, three holly leaves above, ?twisted stem below. Identical to Gravell WHL.005.1
Date second half 16th cent.
Location of use Cambridge (?), England
Dimensions  68mm x 28mm
Chain-lines gutter 28-25-29-28-28-28-28-28 foredge
Position between lines 5 and 6, inverted
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Farmleigh MS IV E 6, pp 467-8
Repository Farmleigh House, Dublin (collection under ownership of Marsh’s Library)
Hand with 5-petal flower on stem above; trefoil on glove over letters ‘V O [?]’
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Hand with 5-petal flower on stem above; trefoil on glove over letters ‘V O [?]’

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
Crown over inverted Peter’s Cross, between two interlocking Cs, second reversed. Similar to Arms of Lorraine save for absence of Cross of Lorraine
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Crown over inverted Peter’s Cross, between two interlocking Cs, second reversed. Similar to Arms of Lorraine save for absence of Cross of Lorraine

Watermark Crown over inverted Peter’s Cross, between two interlocking Cs, second reversed. Similar to Arms of Lorraine save for absence of Cross of Lorraine
Date 1641
Location of use Dublin, Ireland
Dimensions 75 mm x 45 mm
Chain-lines 16]-23-23-22-24-23-22-23-24-23-24-23-23-23-24-23-22-24-[3
Position between lines 3 and 6, centered between 4 and 5
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Office of the Chief Herald Collection, GO MS 50, ff 249-251;

researched and described by Louise O’Connor
Repository National Library of Ireland