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 ...

National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

Best of all was the chance to visit the Book of Kells as many times as I wanted. (The Library displays a different page each day.) These illuminated manuscripts are one of the wonders of medieval ...

Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing ...

Mention Irish illuminated manuscripts and the chances are the Book of Kells will pop into your mind. Not only is it a masterpiece of the illuminator's art, it's a global symbol of Irishness ...

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 ...

Pages from one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish, "The Book of Leinster", as part of a ...

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 ...

A new immersive exhibition invites visitors to step into the pages of a 9th-century illuminated manuscript known as the Book of Kells. The digital experience will be launched in January at the Old ...

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.