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# The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good book
  

*by N***Z on Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2024*

Works well for the study of the past.  The art work is fantastic

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The "Poor Man's (or Woman's) Book of Kells, -- arguably, the greatest illuminated Irish Illumination, and National Treasure !
  

*by E***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2013*

The Book of Kells, a masterful illuminated latin Gospel form ca. 800 AD was composed under the direction of St. Columkille of Iona [Scotland] at Kells, Ireland. I was priveleged to view the original 3 times, twice at its home in the Trinty College Library, Dblin, and once in the late '70s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art when the National Treasures of Ireland were on tour in the US. AT the Philly Museum, The Book of Kells was accompanied by armed guards. Arguably, it is one of the greatest illuminated Gospels manuscripts from the "Dark Ages," a masterful depiction of the Hiberno-Norse style.  It is certainly among the top National Treasures of Ireland. A few years ago it even was the subject of an Award-winning animated film (for adults as much as children), aptly named "The Secret of Kells," How could anyone interested in art from this period and/or proud of his or her Irish heritage not want to own least a piece of this ? With this moderately priced volume almost anyone can ! Sure, there are better, more comprehensive, and expensive depictions. If you can afford those get one of them, if not, this is the very thing. I have it sitting on my piano open to an illuminated page on a late medieval knockoff book stand. Or, it's exactly right for your coffee table. This is not something designed to waste away on a bookshelf gathering dust. It's like your best pressed Sunday suit at the right price !

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A sumptuously illustrated, and affordable, introduction to one of the treasures of the western world
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2013*

On an upcoming trip to Ireland, I plan to see whatever I am allowed to see of the Book of Kells at the library of Trinity College in Dublin.  I fear that it will be as sterile and remote as seeing the Gutenberg Bible under glass at the Library of Congress, although there might be a tad more zing given that the Book of Kells is illuminated.  In any event, in preparation for the experience I bought and read THE BOOK OF KELLS by Bernard Meehan.The illustrations are sumptuous.  (There are 117 of them, 110 in color.)  They certainly whet my anticipation, and I suspect they give me better and closer access to the Book of Kells than I will get in person.  Bernard Meehan's text does not quite measure up to the illustrations.  Meehan, the current Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin, certainly is knowledgeable.  But his text assumes that the reader already has more knowledge about pre-medieval illuminated manuscripts than at least this reader in fact had, and it is a little on the dry side.  I learned a lot from it, but I had to work harder than I think I ought to have had to work in an introductory work.  Still, Meehan's BOOK OF KELLS is a more affordable simulacrum of what the 11th-century Annals of Ulster called "the most precious object of the western world" than was the compete facsimile edition published in Switzerland in 1990, which carried a retail price of $18,000.

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