Sewing the Book of Dimma

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Channel: Trinity College Dublin · 2016 · Education

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After extensive repairs and imaging of this early medieval Irish 'pocket gospel' the Book of Dimma was re-sewn using methods employed when the manuscript was originally bound in the eighth century.

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