Posted on 12/01/2016 2:15:29 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Subtitle " The conservator called the finding miraculous: “We never before had to deal with a manuscript recovered from a bog."
Interesting video at link (4:06)
In 2006 an Irish worker discovered an amazing find while digging in a bog with his backhoe at Fadden More. Sticking out of the earth was an ancient manuscript, miraculously intact after more than a thousand years. Archeologists were quickly notified and carefully retrieved the manuscript and began at once investigating it and putting the pieces together.
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
“The Faddan More Psalter is composed of 60 sheets of vellum which are divided into five gatherings, or quires. The text is based on the Gallican Psalter, a version of the Latin Psalter devised by St. Jerome in the late 4th century.
The text is written with iron gall ink, and a red and yellow pigments are used for decoration. It contains the standard 150 psalms. The opening letter of each psalm is marked by a capital and the opening words of Psalms 1, 51, and 101 are decorated, a convention used in other Irish psalters.”
The Psalter has been dated to c. 800 and is one of the earliest Church documents found in Ireland. When the manuscript was found it was opened to Psalm 83 and some saw it as a prophecy regarding the destruction of Israel. However, Dr. Patrick Wallace pointed out that the numbering of the Psalter was according to the Septuagint and differs slightly from our modern numbering system of the Psalms. He said what was found was “part of Verse 7 of Psalm 83 in the old Latin translation of the Bible [the Vulgate] which…would have been the version used in the medieval period.”
If rocks were money the Irish would be the richest nation in the world and if whiskey were medicine no Irishman would ever get sick.
The Irish were not incorporated in to Latin Christendom until the Normans invaded, see early English commentators.
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How do we believe the information in something that was tossed away in a a bog...
Re : Post #7
*How do we believe the information in something that was tossed away in a bog...*
tossed away in a bog? HA! The true Hibernians will instantly grasp the stolen/cultural misappropriation of traditional Irish Humor.
Malarkey!, “I cried!” HA!
:^)
Doubtful it was tossed away. It was probably lost there and someone was in a lot of trouble.
Lost... much like the humor I attempted with my post
Apparently.
I read this book and it is exceptional. For Anyone interested in the early Church it is well worth reading.
The Bible in Jeremiah makes reference to the seed of the Jews (in Zedekiah’s daughters} leaving for the “Tahpanhes” in Egypt and going then to the isles in the west and north.... A place to be known one day as the place of the “Saxon” from Issac - sons.
God in His wisdom allowed the discovery of whiskey so that the Irish would not rule the world.
We have a copy of that book somewhere in the house. I’ll have to pull it out for a re-read.
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