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The Book of Kells
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) is celebrated for its lavish decoration. The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin based on a Vulgate text, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule".
The place of origin of the Book of Kells is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around 561 by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. In 806, following a Viking raid on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. It must have been close to the year 800 that the Book of Kells was written, although there is no way of knowing if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location.
It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.
PS - 'Scribe2Scribe' explores an imagined dialogue between two scribes who are writing the Book of Kells. The contents and the meaning of the texts of the Book of Kells, which are of course the four gospels, remain for the most part inaccessible to most of the general public, as they are written in Latin. Its form can nonetheless be viewed and visually appreciated by all. ‘Scribe2Scribe’ merges the modern immediacy of text messaging with the ancient craft of the monks to produce work which might provoke thought on the incredible changes which have occurred in the communication of the written word over the past 12 centuries. The ‘Scribe2Scribe’ exhibition will be based in the Trinity Long Room Hub from 19 September to 30 November 2014.
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/
Oscar Wilde still inspires millions around the world – even though he died over a hundred years ago!
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/index.php
http://www.poetryireland.ie/
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) is celebrated for its lavish decoration. The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin based on a Vulgate text, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule".
The place of origin of the Book of Kells is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around 561 by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. In 806, following a Viking raid on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. It must have been close to the year 800 that the Book of Kells was written, although there is no way of knowing if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location.
It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.
PS - 'Scribe2Scribe' explores an imagined dialogue between two scribes who are writing the Book of Kells. The contents and the meaning of the texts of the Book of Kells, which are of course the four gospels, remain for the most part inaccessible to most of the general public, as they are written in Latin. Its form can nonetheless be viewed and visually appreciated by all. ‘Scribe2Scribe’ merges the modern immediacy of text messaging with the ancient craft of the monks to produce work which might provoke thought on the incredible changes which have occurred in the communication of the written word over the past 12 centuries. The ‘Scribe2Scribe’ exhibition will be based in the Trinity Long Room Hub from 19 September to 30 November 2014.
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/
Oscar Wilde still inspires millions around the world – even though he died over a hundred years ago!
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/index.php
http://www.poetryireland.ie/