MANUSCRIPTS - The Book of Kells
GOSPEL BOOKS: The Book of Kells Latin: Codex Cenannensis Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais ; MS ID: Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I The Book of Kells is probably one of the most recognisable early medieval manuscripts from the British Isles (For why I use the term British Isles generally see here ). It was created at the Columban monastery somewhere in either Ireland, Scotland, or England. The manuscript consists of 340 folios bound into four volumes with a combined page count of 680. The text is written using iron gall ink, with the vibrant colours were made up of a variety of mixtures, with some of the ingredients for the pigment having been imported. Created at the very beginning of the ninth century, it came to the monastery at Kells, and is now held by Trinity College Dublin, where any two of the four volumes are on display at any one time. The text contains the four Canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, along with additi...