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Loading... The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in…by Bernard Meehan
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A quick but academic read about the illuminated manuscripts copied by monks in ancient Ireland. Luckily it is heavily illustrated to avoid my head spinning from the frequent use of language specific to the trade of manuscript studies (  )1   Othemts | Jun 25, 2008 |  Good general introduction to the book and its history. Shows a few of the less common folios and gives some detail close ups. 117 illustrations, 110 in color. (  ) sprowett | May 3, 2008 | The Book of Kells: possibly the pinnacle of medieval artistic achievement. This book provides a great introduction to the manuscript and its pictures are almost entirely in color. (  )1 clairabella09 | Aug 26, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0500277907, Paperback)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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