Month: March 2017

Hand with six-petal flower on stem above
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Hand with six-petal flower on stem above

Watermark Hand with six-petal flower on stem above
Date 1509
Location of use Cill Athricht [Killaraght, Co. Sligo, Ireland]
Dimensions Composite: 28 mm x 31 mm (lower section), 20 mm x 43 mm (upper section)
Chain-lines Obscured
Position Horizontal across gutter
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; composite image created through Photoshop
Source RIA MS 23 N 29 (467) ff. 4 (lower section) and 6 (upper section) medical text written by Connla Mac an Leagha [thanks to Dr Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha for advice]
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.
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Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.

Watermark Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.
Date Late 16th / early 17th century:  cf. Briquet 8079; Gravell §§ 629, 1065, 1714; occurs in MSS of works by Philip Sidney, John Harington and Edmund Campion
Location of use Ireland
Dimensions 59 mm x 17 mm
Chain-lines 17]-23-18-20-22-21-21-20-20-[5; horizontal
Position centred on line 6, inner margin
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source RIA MS 23 N 29 (467) [composite manuscript] f. 57, fragment containing aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
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Hand with five-petal flower, on stem, above; ‘B3A’ over fleur de lis in lower half of hand.

 
Watermark Hand with five-petal flower, on stem, above; ‘B3A’ over fleur de lis in lower half of hand.
Date 1556
Location of use Dublin, Ireland
Dimensions 84 mm x 35 mm
Chain-lines gutter 25]-27-27-28-27-27-28-[7 foredge
Position centred between lines 2 and 3
Process Canon EOS, backlighting
Source RIA MS 24 F 16, f. 114; Irish Privy Council Book 1556–71; single watermark through 343 folios. Identical to watermark in Book of Common Prayer and Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Bunch of grapes on ornamental base between two pillars
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Bunch of grapes on ornamental base between two pillars

 
Watermark Bunch of grapes on ornamental base between two pillars
Date 1655
Location of use Dublin, Ireland
Dimensions 62 mm x 47 mm
Chain-lines gutter 5]-24-25-23-23-23-25-[20 foredge
Position between lines 4 and 5
Process Canon EOS, backlighting
Source RIA MS 12 O 3, pp 203–4 ; ‘Whyte Booke’ of the Guild of St Anne, Dublin, 1655–87; single watermark through 322 pages
Repository Royal Irish Academy
Hand with five-petal flower, on stem, above
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Hand with five-petal flower, on stem, above

Watermark Hand with five-petal flower, on stem, above
Date 20 June 1571
Location of use Ireland
Dimensions 40 x 12 mm
Chain-lines 26]-28-28
Position Inverted between gutter and line 1, top inner margin; only some of watermark presents, as book is printed in quarto. Lower part of hand/glove visible elsewhere (e.g. pp 37–8), but not capturable. Single watermark throughout. This watermark is identical to that in Book of Common Prayer (1551) and in Privy Council Book 1556–71
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma (Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin] 1571) 39–40, the earliest book printed with Gaelic type
Repository Trinity College Dublin
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Flower (six petals) on stem, with leaves

 
Watermark Flower (six petals) on stem, with leaves
Date 1618
Location of use Lobháin [Louvain/Leuven], Spanish Netherlands [Belgium]
Dimensions  35 x 15 mm
Chain-lines 10]-23-23-24-23-23-[10 horizontal
Position Top outer margin, centered between lines 1 and 2
Process Canon EOS, backlighting, Photoshop
Source Aodh Mac Aingil, Scathan Shacramuinte na haithridhe (Lobháin1618) pp 519-20
Repository Private collection
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Crown

 
Watermark Crown
Date 1618
Location of use Lobháin [Louvain/Leuven], Spanish Netherlands [Belgium]
Dimensions  50 mm x 20 mm (top), 35 mm x 15 mm (base)
Chain-lines 10]-23-23-24-23-23-[10 horizontal
Position Top outer margin, centred between lines 1 and 2
Process Canon EOS, backlighting, composite image created through Photoshop
Source Aodh Mac Aingil, Scathan Shacramuinte na haithridhe (Lobháin1618) pp 77-8 (base), 436-7 (top of crown)
Repository Private collection

 

Crown on grapes
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Crown on grapes

Watermark Crown on grapes
Date 1616
Location of use Lobháin [Louvain/Leuven], Spanish Netherlands [Belgium]
Dimensions  50 mm x 45 mm (composite)
Chain-lines 8-2]-22-21-20-20-[10-3
Position Top margin, inverted, between lines 2 and 3; divided across leaves
Process Canon EOS, backlighting, composite image processed with Photoshop
Source F[lorence] C[onry], Leabhar ina bhfuil modh iarrata agus fhaghala fhorbheachda na beathadh riaghaltha . . . Desiderius (Lobháin 1616) pp 113-14 (crown), and pp 91-2 (grapes)
Repository Private collection