Gaelic Manuscripts

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
Hand with six-petal flower on stem above
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Hand with six-petal flower on stem above

Watermark Hand with six-petal flower on stem above
Date 1509
Location of use Cill Athricht [Killaraght, Co. Sligo, Ireland]
Dimensions Composite: 28 mm x 31 mm (lower section), 20 mm x 43 mm (upper section)
Chain-lines Obscured
Position Horizontal across gutter
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; composite image created through Photoshop
Source RIA MS 23 N 29 (467) ff. 4 (lower section) and 6 (upper section) medical text written by Connla Mac an Leagha [thanks to Dr Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha for advice]
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.
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Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.

Watermark Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.
Date Late 16th / early 17th century:  cf. Briquet 8079; Gravell §§ 629, 1065, 1714; occurs in MSS of works by Philip Sidney, John Harington and Edmund Campion
Location of use Ireland
Dimensions 59 mm x 17 mm
Chain-lines 17]-23-18-20-22-21-21-20-20-[5; horizontal
Position centred on line 6, inner margin
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source RIA MS 23 N 29 (467) [composite manuscript] f. 57, fragment containing aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Pot, one-handled; ‘B (or R?) / P O’ in bowl; elaborate cap with trefoils, topped with star on quatrefoil
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Pot, one-handled; ‘B (or R?) / P O’ in bowl; elaborate cap with trefoils, topped with star on quatrefoil

 

 
Watermark Pot, one-handled; ‘B (or R?) / P O’ in bowl; elaborate cap with trefoils, topped with star on quatrefoil
Date Early 17th century
Location of use Ireland
Dimensions 110 mm x 38 mm (base)
Chain-lines 8]-23-24-25-23-22-23-23-[5; horizontal
Position between lines 3 and 5, across gutter
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source RIA MS 23 D 14 (1) pp 120-21 (central bifolium).
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Gloved hand with flower (five petals on stem) above
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Gloved hand with flower (five petals on stem) above

Gloved hand with flower (five petals on stem) above
Watermark Gloved hand with flower (five petals on stem) above
Date 16th century
Location of use Co. Mayo?
Dimensions c. 72 mm x 20 mm [hand and flower 42 mm high, glove 30 mm]
Chain-lines gutter 20]-25-25-[11 fore-edge
Position Hand and flower p. 98, lower margin, between gutter and line 1; glove p. 58 upper margin between gutter and line 1
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; composite image created through Photoshop
Source Royal Irish Academy MS 23 A 4 (469), pp. 58 and 98; a medical manuscript written by Aodh Ó Ceannamháin; cf. British Library MS Add. 15582 (thanks to Dr Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha)
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin