National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

The Book of Kells is considered the finest example of the "Insular" style of illuminated manuscripts — from the Latin word for island, the island being Celtic Britain — that were produced in ...

Best of all was the chance to visit the Book of Kells as many times as I wanted. (The Library displays a different page each day.) These illuminated manuscripts are one of the wonders of medieval ...

Mention Irish illuminated manuscripts and the chances are the Book of Kells will pop into your mind. Not only is it a masterpiece of the illuminator's art, it's a global symbol of Irishness ...

Using the scrollwork designs and microscopic detailing of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels likely dating to the early 8th century, “The Secret of Kells,” which ...

More than 1,200 years ago Celtic monks painstakingly recorded the Book of Kells. The religious text ... one of very few exact copies of the illuminated manuscript. Less than 1,500 copies exist ...

The “Beyond the Book of Kells” monthly lecture series ... The full digital copy of the “Illuminated Psalter and Hours”, the manuscript to be featured in the first lecture, has been posted ...

The Secret of Kells — Film Review An Irish import taking its inspiration from, of all things, the 12-century-old Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript transcribed by Celtic monks, the ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.