![]() ![]() Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval - IrelandÄ 500238944 (hbk.) Note: "250 illustrations, 230 in color.".Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic. ![]() Vellum - Tools used - Pigments and inks - Constructing the decoration - Bindings and shrines - Preludes and parallels - Structure of the book with a guide to noteworthy pages: Counting the leaves - Collation map. ![]() Later history of the manuscript - Binding and rebinding - Later additions and annotations - The elements of the book: Hebrew names - Canon tables - The Virgin and Child - Breves Causae and Argumenta - The Gospels - Matthew's Gospel - Mark's Gospel - Luke's Gospel - John's Gospel - Decoration: Antecedents and influences - Symbols and themes - Imaging the Gospels - Concealed illustrations - Uncertainties - Scribes and artists: The scribes' work - The scribes - The artists - The speed of scribes and artists - Physical features of the book. Contents: Introduction - Historical background. Author, Bernard Meehan, the current Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College states that 'the sacred text itself was copied in the Book of Kells with a remarkable degree of inaccuracy.' It consists of the Latin text of the Gospels, illuminated in the very ornate Hiberno-Saxon style ('Hiberno' refers to the Irish, or Hibernians). ![]()
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