SNIPPET: Perhaps you can still locate a copy of this book published by the Dolmen Press in 1985. A review in Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine called it an important and unusual book in that the author, Brother Timothy O'NEILL, FSC, is himself a scribe in the great tradition, and that there is a most interesting preface by Professor Francis John BYRNE, an authority on Irish manuscript tradition. Per review, "The publishers, deservedly of good repute, saw to it that this fine book is worthy of its subject." It presents an anthology of Irish manuscripts from the earliest times to the 17th century, with emphasis on the calligraphy employed in each case. Twenty-six of the most famous Irish manuscripts are illustrated with relevant commentaries, and the second part of the book deals with detailed specimens of the scripts used in each case followed by thirty examples which display the history and development of this extraordinary art into our own time.