Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 940, fol. 8r. Canon VII, Canon VIII, Canon VIIII. Image reproduced courtesy of Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 940, fol. 8r. Canon VII, Canon VIII, Canon VIIII. Image reproduced courtesy of Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

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This paper focuses on the presence of the different elements of Eusebius’s system of gospel concordance in a series of pocket gospel books associated with early medieval Ireland. It provides a brief overview of the pocket gospel book series as a whole and discusses the appearance of parts of the Eusebian system in the Book of Armagh and in the MacD...

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... non-architectural tables. This tradition is evident in the final two tables included in the Book of Kells, and in the Durrow and Echternach manuscripts (Figs 1-2). It reappears in the set of tables spread across fifteen pages that are included before the Hiberno-Latin commentary on Matthew in Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 940 (Fig. 3).21 While pocket gospel books generally omit the apparatus, it is this second tradition which is reflected in the two examples of tables which survive in the pocket gospel book series, in the New Testament portion of the Book of Armagh (Fig. 4) and in the Book of Mulling (Fig. ...