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Springmount Bog tablets

Six wax tablets inscribed with Psalms 30-32. They were discovered near the Springmount Bog (Co. Antrim) and are now kept at Dublin, National Museum of Ireland (S.A. 1914.2).

Object

Site
Near Springmount Bog (Co. Antrim), not far from the Ballyhutherland townland.
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Epigraphy

Date (range)
s. vii
Base language
Latin language

Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 19–142.  
Reprint.
116–119
[ed.] Armstrong, E. C. R., and R. A. S. Macalister, “Wooden book with leaves indented and waxed found near Springmount Bog, Co. Antrim”, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 50 (1920): 160–166.

Secondary sources (select)

Stansbury, Mark [proj. dir.], and David Kelly [proj. dir.], Earlier Latin manuscripts: tools for studying the scripts of the oldest Latin manuscripts, Online: Department of Classics and Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 2016–. URL: <https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/>. 
abstract:
The Earlier Latin Manuscripts Project is a database of manuscripts written in Latin before the year 800 based on the work of E. A. Lowe and his assistants published in Codices Latini Antiquiores. The work for this project was conducted in the Department of Classics and the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland Galway. Funding for its completion was contributed by both the Moore Institute and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. [...] Data from the database can be accessed in 3 ways, each subject to the license above: # Via the web front-end, accessible using the menu above; # By downloading a .csv file containing some or all of the data. This option is presented at the top of the catalogue page where you can filter and refine the data you would like to download; # By accessing the data via a JSON API (Application Programming Interface). Documentation on accessing data using this method is provided in the Technical Overview Section.
(source: website (November 2016))
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Charles-Edwards, Gifford, “The Springmount Bog tablets: their implications for insular epigraphy and palaeography”, Studia Celtica 36 (2002): 27–45.
McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 19–142.  
Reprint.
31–33
Henry, Françoise, Irish art in the Early Christian period (to A.D. 800), 3rd ed., London: Methuen, 1965.
58
web page identifiers
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
September 2011, last updated: June 2020
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