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 ...

we have extant copies of illuminated manuscripts from Africa, China, India, and the Middle East. Perhaps the most famous in the West is the Celtic style, exemplified in pieces such as the Book of ...

(Getty Museum) Review by Michael Dirda “The Book of Kells,” “The Lindisfarne Gospels” and “The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry” are not just illuminated manuscripts from the ...

It belongs with [the books of] Kells and Durrow ... the same as the manuscripts and the people went on, so that’s what we’re trying to get across.” A Latin grammar book, whose margins ...

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 ...

I’m hoping that this year my wife, Kathy, and I will get to stand in front of the Book of Kells. Unless you’re a history or art buff or have followed the reproduction of the Bible through 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.

O ne of the most remarkable achievements of the medieval world is an illuminated manuscript known as the Book of Kells.