- The word ‘budget’ (bouge, bougette, etc.) is to be preferred to ‘satchel’ as probably being the older and the one almost certainly in common use (in English) around the period with which this paper is concerned; e.g. in Aelfric's 11th-century Colloquium. The Irish word for a book-satchel was not polaire (Archaeologia, XLIII (1871), 135) but tiagh; see quotations from the Calendar of Oengus in J. H. Buckley, ‘Some early ornamental leather work’, J. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ireland, XLV (6 ser., V, 1915), 307–9.
- This paper was read before the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 December, 1965.
- A. T. Lucas, ‘Footwear in Ireland’, Co. Louth Archaeol. J., XIII, no. 4 (1956), 382.
- National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
- Trinity College Library, Dublin.
- MS. CCC 282 (now deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford).
- Stitching which went only half-way through the leather and therefore was visible only on the side from which the stitching was done.
- Lucas, op. cit. in note 2, p. 367.
- A. Gardner, English Mediaeval Sculpture (Cambridge, 1951), ch. ii.
- F. Henry, Irish Art (revised ed., London, 1965), pl. vi.
- Co. Donegal. Ibid., pl. xiii.
- Co. Westmeath. F. Henry, Irish Art (London, 1940), pl. 41, a.
- Co. Kildare. Ibid., pl. II, d.
- F. Henry, op. cit. in note 9, pl. XXV, a.
- A. Gardner, loc. cit. in note 8.
- These dates, particularly those for Bewcastle and Ruthwell, are still in dispute, see E. Mercer, Antiquity, XXXVIII (1964), 268 ff.
- F. Henry, op. cit. in note 9, pl. civ; id., Antiquity, XXXVII (1963), 100 ff.
- MS. C.C.C. 282 (now deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford). F. Henry and G. L. Narsh-Micheli, ‘A century of Irish illumination (1071–1170)’, in Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., LXII (1961–3), 137–40.
- See Treasures of Trinity College, Dublin, being the catalogue of an exhibition held in Burlington House, London, 1961, p. 29 f., nos. 82 (Book of Armagh) and 83 (budget).
- Cuir bouilli: leather modelled into shape (over formers, in moulds, by hand with fillings of wet sand or clay, etc.) whilst in a plastic state after soaking in cold water, and afterwards ‘set’ hard by application of heat. Shields, armour, helmets, sheaths, drinking-cups, flasks, bottles, and small containers of many kinds are among the host of extant objects made by this process, which is still employed.
- D. Talbot Rice, English Art, 871–1100 (Oxford, 1952), p. 124.
- Ibid., pp. 125–6.
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