Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . Europe. Some of these old bells areof the same shape as that of Kentigern,and many of them are most elaboratelyornamented. In an ancient but authentic life of the celebrated artificer Saint Dageus, who lived in the earlypart of the sixth century, as quoted by Colgan, it is stated that he fabricated bells, croziers, and crosses, and though some of these im- plements were without ornament, others were covered with gold silver, and precious stones, in an ingenious and admirable manner. Someof these bells
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . Europe. Some of these old bells areof the same shape as that of Kentigern,and many of them are most elaboratelyornamented. In an ancient but authentic life of the celebrated artificer Saint Dageus, who lived in the earlypart of the sixth century, as quoted by Colgan, it is stated that he fabricated bells, croziers, and crosses, and though some of these im- plements were without ornament, others were covered with gold silver, and precious stones, in an ingenious and admirable manner. Someof these bells are still preserved in Ireland, and among others the bellof St. Mura of the early part of the ninth century—a representationof which is given in the Ulster Journal of Archseology—exhibits awonderful richness of ornamentation. The bell appearing on the early seals of our bishops, and also, aswe shall find, on one of the early seals of the community, is un-doubtedly a representation of a bell then in existence in Glasgow,and believed to have belonged to Kentigern. It is a quadrangular. 20 Sanctity of Bells. bell—a form which indicates a very high antiquity. The seal on whichit is here shown (page 19) is that of the Chapter of Glasgow forCauses, which was in use 1488-1540. Dr. Petrie, in the learned work to which I have referred, gives arepresentation of a sculptured stone which formed the pediment of oneof the oldest of the Irish churches, and on which there is a figure holdinga bell of the same form as that which appears on this seal. Referringto that stone Dr. Petrie says: The quadrangular-shaped bell which appears in the hand of one of the figures exhibits that peculiar form which characterizes all the consecrated bells which have been preserved in Ireland as having belonged to the celebrated saints of the primitive Irish Church, and there is every reason to believe that this quadrangular form gave place to the circular one now in use previous to the twelfth century. Ind
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