Written on vellum, probably around 1391, the Book of Ballymote was produced by the scribes Manus O'Duignan, Solomon O'Droma, and Robert McSheedy, for Tonnaltagh McDonagh, whose clan kept the manuscript until the early 16th century, when it came into the hands of the O'Donnell clan. In 1620 it was given to Trinity College, Dublin, but was stolen from the library, only to be returned to the Royal Irish Academy in 1785. It is in relatively good condition, no doubt do to the treasured status it had in the McDonagh clan.

The first page of the work contains a drawing of Noah's Ark as conceived by the scribe. The first written page is missing and the second opens with a description of the ages of the world. It then contains a history of the Jews; a life of Saint Patrick; a copy of the Book of Invasions, the Instructions of King Cormac, as well as other stories of King Cormac Mac Airt, stories of Fionn Mac Cumhail and Brian Borumha, genealogies of various clans and kings, and two very important tracts: the Book of Rights, and Auraicept na n-Éces - the Ogham Treatis, about which so much has been made. The end of the book is a collection of Greek and Latin works on the fall of Troy, with a bit of the Aeneid thrown in.

The earliest known record of wallpaper in the Western world dates to 1481, when King Louis XI of France commissioned Jean Bourdichon to paint 50 rolls of paper with angels on a blue background so that he could take his wall decorations with him as he moved from one castle to another. Unfortunately, none of that paper itself has survived.

The earliest known wallpaper that still exists was discovered in 1911 on the beams at Christ's College in Cambridge, England. It dates to 1509 and features an Italian pomegranate design printed by woodcut on the back of a proclamation issued by Henry VIII. At the same time, across the English Channel, French craftsmen were producing single sheets of decorated papers for the middle-class market. However, these served more as pictures that covered cracks in the wall than a wall treatment or major element of home decor.

Few of Tiffany's ecclesiastical textiles have survived. This highly detailed presentation drawing depicts a cope intended for the Reverend Edward McCurdy, a priest of Saint Augustine's Church in Brooklyn from 1876 to 1925. The embroidery, a complex pattern of interlocking gold strapwork and stylized ivy vines, is reminiscent of thirteenth-century ornament. The finished work would have been a sumptuously ornamented vestment to be worn for processions and holy days.