...a magnifying-glass, the pages of the Gospels of Lindisfarne and Book of Kells, for hours together, without ever detecting a false line or an irregular...measuring scarcely three-quarters of an inch by less than half an inch in width, in the Book of Armagh, not fewer than one hundred and fifty-eight interlacements...

...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to have been impossible to have been executed by a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem, not...instance of the minuteness of these details will suffice. I have counted in a small space, scarcely three-quarters of an inch in length by less than half-an-inch...

...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...but also with what instruments they could have been execi i ted . One instance of the minuteness of these details will suffice to give an idea of this...

...interlacement ; and when it is considered that many of these details consist of spiral lines, and that they are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed...with what instruments they could have been executed.' a In the case of MSS. as distinct from stone work, the following additional, or for the most part additional,...

...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to have been impossible to have been executed by a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...with what instruments, they could have been executed. The invention and skill displayed, the neatness, precision, and delicacy, far surpass nil that is to...

...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...have counted in a small space, measuring scarcely three quarters of an inch, by less than half an inch in width, in the Book of Armagh, not fewer than...

...ever detecting a false line or an irregalar interlacement ; when it is considered that many of the details consist of spiral lines and are so minute...instruments they could have been executed. One instance of these details will suffice to give an idea of this peculiarity. I have counted in a small space measuring...

...details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not...with what instruments they could have been executed. ... I counted in a small space, measuring scarcely three quarters of an inch by less than half an inch...

...details consist of spiral lines and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed without compasses, it really seems a problem not only with...what instruments, they could have been executed." At the National Industrial Exhibition in Dublin two years ago, one's eye was caught by case after case...

...spiral lines which are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed by a pair of compasses; it seems a problem, not only with what eyes, but also...with what instruments they could have been executed." The book of Lindisfarne is aa typically Celtic and almost as fine, but written by men with Saxon names,...