cumdach in a sentence

1. The specially made cumdach is in the National Museum of Ireland  Archaeology.
2. The cumdach of the Book of Dimma is from the 12th century, again with a reproduction in New York.
3. In the 12th century the manuscript was encased in a richly worked cumdach or reliquary case, which remains with it at Trinity.
4. The manuscript was rediscovered in its cumdach in 1813, and given by its last hereditary keeper to the Royal Irish Academy in 1843.
5. Only the cumdach for the Gospels of St Molaise survives, while the book is lost, but more often the reverse is the case.
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7. They were sometimes carried into battle in their reliquaries or cumdach, hanging by a chain around the neck of a member of the clan.
8. They were frequently deposited in a highly wrought casket ( " Arca Testamenti " ), which in Ireland was called " cumdach " ( shrine ).
9. Another cumdach used in battle was that of the " Moisach ", from Clonmany, County Donegal, whose metal cord survives for carrying it, probably round the neck.
10. Cumdachs are to be distinguished from the metalwork treasure bindings that probably covered most grand liturgical books of the period the theft and loss of that covering the Book of Kells ( if it was not a cumdach alone ) is recorded.
11. The " Aberdeen Martyrology " mentions " the Gospel of Matthew belonging to St . Ternan ", which was enshrined in a metal case or " cumdach " ( book shrine ) and is said to have remained in Banchory until the reformation.
12. Several Ireland-related manuscripts from the collection were allocated to the Royal Irish Academy ( R . I . A . ) in Dublin, with the cumdach or book-shrine of the Stowe Missal subsequently being transferred to the National Museum of Ireland.
13. It belonged to the O'Donnell dynasty and was famously carried by them as a battle standard ( " Cathach " means " Battler " ) in its cumdach ( NMI, R2835, 25.1 cm wide ), hung round the neck.
14. Only five early examples survive, including those of the Book of Dimma and Book of Mulling at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Cathach of St . Columba and Stowe Missal at the Royal Irish Academy ( the former's cumdach is in the National Museum of Ireland ).
15. The oldest cumdach surviving largely in its original form is that made in the early 11th century for the gospels of Saint Molaise ( NMI, R4006, 14.75 cm high, 11.70 wide ) with the typical construction of a wooden core to which metal plaques are nailed.
16. Probably the best-known is the cumdach for the Cathach of St . Columba, an important psalter which in fact seems to date from just after the death of Columba or Colum Cille in 597, but is still probably the earliest Irish book to survive and a very prestigious relic.
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