The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color
by:
Anonymous (author)
Blanche Cirker (author)
Painstakingly reproduced from a rare facsimile edition, this volume contains full-page decorations, portraits, illustrations, plus a sampling of textual leaves with exquisite calligraphy and ornamentation. 32 full-color illustrations.
Painstakingly reproduced from a rare facsimile edition, this volume contains full-page decorations, portraits, illustrations, plus a sampling of textual leaves with exquisite calligraphy and ornamentation. 32 full-color illustrations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486243450 (0486243451)
Publish date: October 1st 1982
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Yesterday, we visited the Book of Kells exhibition at Trinity College, Dublin. The book was indeed impressive and beautiful, but I liked even more the poem Pangur Bán, originally written in 9th century Irish by an unknown monk, on a copy of St Paul's Epistles. Robin Flower's translation:I and Pangur...
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