..."small space scarcely three quarters of an inch in length by less than half an inch in width, no less than one hundred and fifty-eight interlacements of...slender ribbon pattern formed of white lines edged with black ones." - One of these manuscripts, sometimes, would be given as a king's ransom. — An...

...scarcely three quarters of an inch in length by half an inch in width, in the Book of Armagh no less than one hundred and fifty-eight interlacements of...slender ribbon pattern formed of white lines edged with black ones." Other beautifully ornamented and illuminated manuscripts are the Book of Durrow and...

...measuring scarcely ^ of an inch by less than J^ an inch in width in the Book of Armagh, not fewer than 158 interlacements of a slender ribbon pattern formed of white lines, edged by black ones on a black ground." WORKERS IN METAL. As there is exhibited to us in those ornamented MSS., with their...