illumination of books and manuscripts, celtic

Traces the origins of the animal style in Celtic design, and features over four hundred black-and-white illustrations of Celtic animal patterns, with descriptions.

Includes 117 illustrations, many showing detail, with text by the Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College. Provides an analysis of the artists, illuminations, text, and historic background of the book.

A sailor continues the work of others in creating the illuminated Book of Kells.

Thirty-two full-color plates present all of the full-page decorations, illustrations, and portraits in the famous ninth-century New Testament gospel text, the Book of Kells, as well as several examples of its textual leaves.