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Wednesday 27 November 2013

The Faddan More Psalter

Alphabet soup - in places only the ink of the letters survives, making this a unique conservation challenge.
These disembodied letters and words are from the Faddan More Psalter, a medieval manuscript that spent 1200 years at the bottom of a bog. Conservation efforts are underway at the National Museum of Ireland. Read more on this remarkable find here.