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  The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin (Paperback) By (author) Bernard Meehan

  

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  Short Description for The Book of KellsReproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages of the Book of Kells, with a series of enlargements showing minute details. This book also looks at the artists, the text and the writing, and has an account of the historical background of the book.
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  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Published: 17 February 1995
  • Format: Paperback 96 pages
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  • Categories: Art History: Byzantine & Medieval c 500 CE to c 1400 | Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections | Religious Subjects Depicted In Art | Illustration | Antiques & Collectables: Books, Manuscripts, Ephemera & Printed Matter | Lettering & Calligraphy
  • ISBN 13: 9780500277904 ISBN 10: 0500277907
  • Sales rank: 56,960

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• This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humour. Accompanying the illustrations is a new text by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin. He provides an authoritative 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.