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- catalog abstract "The 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.".
- catalog contributor b1191535.
- catalog contributor b1191536.
- catalog created "1980.".
- catalog date "1980".
- catalog date "1980.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1980.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 96.".
- catalog description "Introduction 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.".
- catalog description "The 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.".
- catalog extent "8, 96 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Book of Kells.".
- catalog identifier "0394739604 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Book of Kells.".
- catalog issued "1980".
- catalog issued "1980.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Book of Kells.".
- catalog subject "745.6/7/0941822".
- catalog subject "Bible. Gospels. Latin. Book of Kells Illustrations.".
- catalog subject "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic.".
- catalog subject "ND3359.K4 B652 1980".
- catalog subject "Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction 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.".
- catalog title "The Book of Kells : forty-eight pages and details from the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin / selected and introduced by Peter Brown.".
- catalog type "text".