Notes on the Cross of Cong (1895)
Book ID: 68926
Price: €125.00
Notes on the Cross of Cong. Dublin University Press, 1895. First Edition. Folio. Pp 12. Ex library copy with stamps in a library cloth binding. A good copy.
Printed for Private Circulation in a Limited Edition of 200 Numbered Copies.
The Cross of Cong was commissioned in 1123. It is the most important reliquary surviving from early medieval Ireland, belonging to a large corpus of pre-Norman, decorative, church metalwork from the late 11th and 12th centuries.
Illustrated with two coloured plates.
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