THE BOOK OF KELLS ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT

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THE BOOK OF KELLS

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT • Handwritten book • Decorated with: • Initals • Border decoration (marginalia) • Miniature illustrations (from “minium=red lead (pigment)

Ca. 800 AD Island of IONA, Scotland By the monks, followers of St. Columba

Viking raids on Iona – monks flee to Ireland, the Abbey of Kells, hence the name

Vikings plunder the Abbey of Kells – the Book disappears but found missing its lavish cover

• Since 1661 in Trinity College, Dublin

JAMES JOYCE: • "In all the places I have been to, Rome, Zurich, Trieste, I have taken it about with me, and have pored over its workmanship for hours. It is the most purely Irish thing we have, and some of the big initial letters which swing right across a page have the essential quality of a chapter of Ulysses. Indeed, you can compare much of my work to the intricate illuminations. "

• 340 folio (leafs) extant, 330 by 250 mm • Folio ≠ page

• Bifolio - quire

FOUR GOSPELS: MATHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN • The man (Matthew), the ox (Luke), the lion (Mark) and the eagle (John)

CANONS (CROSS REFERENCES)

• Written in insular majuscule

MATERIALS • Gold and silver leaf • Pigments: red and yellow ochre, green copper pigment (verdigris), indigo, lapis lazuli,

• Ink – gall nuts

DECORATION • Full-page miniatures

BORDER DECORATION • Knot-work, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs

INITIALS

CHI-RHO PAGE (34 R)

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