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A well-known legend relates that Crónán asked a monk named Dimma to copy the book, but that it had to be done in one day. Dimma set to work on this impossible task and copied continuously without a break for any meals. All the while he worked the sun never set. When Dimma finished, he thought that it
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had only taken him one day, when in reality it had taken forty. This miracle was attributed to Crónán.
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The gospels other than John are "written for the most part in a rapid
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society in Dublin, sometime before 1816. He was presented to the
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of the Book of Dimma, 20th-century reproduction of front
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Treasures of early Irish art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
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