Editing Book of Armagh (section)

== Dating==
The dating of the manuscript goes back to Rev. Charles Graves, who deciphered in 1846 from partially erased colophons the name of the scribe Ferdomnach and the bishop Torbach who ordered the Book. According to the [[Annals of the Four Masters]] Torbach died in 808 and [[Ferdomnach]] in 847. As Torbach became bishop in 807 and died in 808 the manuscript must have been written around this time. Unfortunately to make the writing better visible Graves used a chemical solution and this had the effect that the writing related to the scribe and bishop is not readable any more.<ref name="Sharpe">{{Cite journal
| volume = 36
| pages = 3–28
| last = Sharpe
| first = Richard
| title = Palaeographical Considerations in the Study of the Patrician Documents in the Book of Armagh
| journal = Scriptorium: International Review of Manuscript Studies
| year = 1982
| doi=10.3406/scrip.1982.1240
}}</ref><ref name="Esposito">{{cite journal|last1=Esposito|first1=Mario|title=St Patrick's ' Confessio ' and the ' Book of Armagh '|journal=Irish Historical Studies|date=1954|volume=9|issue=33|pages=1–12|doi=10.1017/s0021121400028509|jstor=30006384|s2cid=163281610 }}</ref>