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The book of Kells : reproductions from the manuscript in Trinity college Dublin
Year: 1976 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson

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The book of Kells : Reproductions from the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin
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ISBN: 050023213X Year: 1974 Publisher: London Thames

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The aim of this edition is to show the illustration and decoration of the Book of Kells in colour. It inclused all the full page illustrations in the manuscript and a representative selection of the ornamentation that is to be found on the text pages.


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Le livre de Kells
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ISBN: 0851054102 9780851054100 Year: 2000 Publisher: Gerrards Cross Colin Smythe Limited

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The book of Deer
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ISBN: 0094732108 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Constable

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The Book of Kells : ... fine art facsimile volume.
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ISBN: 3856720316 9783856720315 Year: 1990 Publisher: Lucerne Faksimile Verlag


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From Durrow to Kells : the insular Gospel books 650 - 800
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ISBN: 0500234744 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson


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The Book of Kells : forty-eight pages and details in colour from the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
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ISBN: 0500271925 9780500271926 0500233268 9780500233269 Year: 1980 Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson,

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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, 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 painting that seems to have little to do with the sacred text. The strange, half-Surrealist imagination displayed in the pages, the impeccable technique and the very fine state of preservation make it an object of endless fascination. This edition includes the most important of the large illustrations plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail - arabesques, interlaced patterns, weird and witty monsters and grotesqueries - a combination of high seriousness and bizarre humour that is as astonishing now as when the Book was written. Accompanying the illustrations is Peter Brown's scholarly analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the test and the writing, and a full account of the historical background to the miraculous world of the Book of Kells.

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