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040 $aBKL$cBKL$dJED$dOrLoB$dOrLoB
245 04 $aThe Book of Kells :$ban illustrated introduction to the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin /$c[selected by] Bernard Meehan.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bThames and Hudson,$c1994.
300 $a95 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 93-95).
505 0 $aThe Book and its background -- Decorative influences and parallels -- The scheme of decoration -- The purpose of the decoration -- Decorative themes: the book and the cross. Angels. The evangelists and their symbols. Eucharistic symbolism. Christ and his symbols: fish, snake and lion. The peacock and the dove. Illustrative features in the minor decoration. Human figures and activities. Minor animal decoration -- Scribes and artists -- How long did it take to produce? -- Vellum -- Writing materials and pigments -- Conclusion: 'The secrets of the artistry' -- Appendix I: Historical Background -- Appendix II: Losses, additions and Marginalla.
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. Its earliest history remains controversial 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.
520 8 $aIt is a masterpiece of medieval art - a brilliantly decorated copy of the four Gospels with full-page illustrations of Christ, the Virgin and Child and the Evangelists, and a wealth of smaller decorative painting that does not always relate to the sacred text. The strange imagination displayed in the pages, the impeccable technique and the very fine state of its preservation make it an object of endless fascination.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aThis edition includes the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail - spiral and interlace patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humor. Accompanying the illustrations is a new, up-to-date text by Bernard Meehan, the current Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin.
520 8 $aIt provides a scholarly analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the text and the writing, and a full account of the historical background to the miraculous world of the Book of Kells.
610 20 $aTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79077553
630 00 $aBook of Kells$vIllustrations.
650 0 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064345
700 1 $aMeehan, Bernard.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95030405
852 00 $bbar$hND3359.K4$iB652 1994g