Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register belonging to the former archbishop of Armagh Milo Sweteman is around 650 years old.
Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.
Conservation work on the Register of Archbishop John Swayne, dated from 1418 to 1438, has already been completed and a digitised copy, along with a translated summary, are now available online. Tears and losses in the paper were infilled with Japanese kozo paper before the books were rebound using 17th century binding material.
The registers are still owned the Diocese of Armagh, which has given permission for the conservation of the significant historical items.
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