![]() ![]() ![]() O’Donell, and myself, without any extraordinary, or supernatural occurrence, except, indeed, a heavy shower of hail which a strong northwest wind drove against the windows of my study’. I, he described how, braving ancient superstitions, ‘Regardless of the injunctions and threats of ignorance, which for more than a century had hermetically sealed it up, the box was opened and examined in the presence of Sir Capel Molyneux, Mr. 3īetham is also responsible for bringing the Cathach Psalter 4 to light in the early 19th century. In his 1826 Irish Antiquarian Researches pt. Phair wrote that it was only in 1842 that Trinity College purchased them from him for £200, 2 but it would appear from the Trinity College Board Register that the acquisition took place much earlier, in 1836, and for the lower sum of £150. Betham rejected the offer and in 1830 auctioned them through Evans in London but they did not find a buyer and were bought in by his nephew Walker. The great collector Sir Thomas Phillipps 1 was interested in purchasing them in 1827 for £250 on the condition the payment would be spread over three years. In 1821, he offered 100 guineas for the Book of Dimma and its box to its then-owner, Henry Monck-Mason, but only succeeded finally secured them in February 1825 for £150. Portrait of William Betham, lithograph after Daniel Maclise, from the Athenaeum Portraits, no. Indeed, he was an assiduous collector of manuscripts and owned the Book of Dimma (TCD MS 59) he also studied closely the Book of Armagh (TCD MS 52) and the Misach (National Museum of Ireland). 1853), an English antiquarian who came to Ireland in 1805, played a significant part in the ‘discovery’ of a number of early Irish manuscripts. ![]()
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