The Book of Kells Author:Peter Brown "The Book of Kells" is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history is still a matter for conjecture, but it was in the keeping of the monastery of Kells... more », Co. Meath, for most of the Middle Ages--hence its name-- and has been in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, since the mid-seventeenth century. It is a masterpiece of medieval art--a brilliantly illuminated copy of the four Gospels with full-page illustrations of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists and a wealth of smaller decorative paintings that seems to have little to do with the sacred text....
With 48 pages and details in color and 9 black and white illustrations.« less