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050 00 $aND3359.K4$bB652 1980
082 00 $a745.6/7/0941822
245 04 $aThe Book of Kells :$bforty-eight pages and details from the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin /$cselected and introduced by Peter Brown.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 0 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bdistributed by Random House,$c1980.
300 $a8, 96 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aBibliography: p. 96.
520 $aThe 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. 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. The strange, half-surrealist imagination displayed in its pages, the impeccable technique and the very fine state of preservation make it an object of endless fascination. The editor has chosen 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. He has also provided a scholarly analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the text and the writing, and a full account of its historical background.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aIntroduction to the Book of Kells -- Eight colour plates selected from the preliminaries -- The continental background of Latin and learning -- The island traditions -- Forty colour plates, including enlargements of details, selected from the Gospels -- The scribes and their texts -- The illumination and the artists -- The history of the manuscript.
610 20 $aTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
630 00 $aBible.$pGospels.$lLatin.$sBook of Kells$xIllustrations.
650 0 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic.
700 1 $aBrown, Peter,$d1925-
700 1 $aBrown, Peter,$d1925-1984.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tBook of Kells.$b1st American ed.$dNew York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980$w(OCoLC)558450424
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