di Bernard Meehan
The Book of Kells is one of the great treasures of medieval Europe
Produced around 800, it presents a text of the Gospels employing decoration that is not only extraordinarily rich and colourful but also, in places, deeply enigmatic.
This new book will enrich people interested in manuscripts, in design, in Celtic art, in religious imagery, and in the world of Irish studies. It will be a revelation even to those familiar with the great Book of Kells. We are guided through full-page depictions of Christ, the Evangelists and their symbols, lavish openings to the Gospels, inventive lettering, and combinations of complex interlace, animals and human figures.
The book elucidates the imagery, with descriptions of how animals, including lion, peacock and snake, functioned symbolically, and explores the relationship between text and decoration, the scribes and artists, and technical aspects including the production of the manuscript, which remains mysterious.
The exceptional illustrations feature more than eighty actual-size reproductions of full pages, and enlarged details that allow the reader’s eye to dwell on the intricacy of decoration that is barely visible in the manuscript itself.
‘A sumptuous volume containing more than 80 pages from the manuscript reproduced full-size and in full, ravishing colour … a triumph of scholarly investigation and interpretation’ – The Financial Times
‘The value of the new edition of ‘The Book of Kells’ is not merely in the quality of the illustrations but the lucidity of the explanatory texts by Bernard Meehan. Although my ancestors came to Ireland some centuries after its creation and thus I cannot claim credit for it, I bask in pride that we did not destroy this masterpiece of European art – Colm Tóibín
‘Something to celebrate … Bernard Meehan has been pivotal in bringing to the fore this beautiful artefact that combines stunning visual art, spirituality and literature in a way that is surely unique’ – The Belfast Telegraph
> Bernard Meehan is Head of Research Collections and Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, owners of the Book of Kells. His curatorial responsibilities include the college’s corpus of medieval manuscripts, collections of Irish historical and literary papers, and the early printed books housed in the iconic three-hundred-year-old Long Room of the Old Library.
Veste editoriale: Cartonato + Cofanetto
Formato: 24,5×32
Pagine: 256
Immagini a colori: 230
Immagini b/n: 20
Lingua: GB
Anno: 2012
ISBN: 9780500238943




di Bernard Meehan
The Book of Kells is one of the great treasures of medieval Europe
Produced around 800, it presents a text of the Gospels employing decoration that is not only extraordinarily rich and colourful but also, in places, deeply enigmatic.
This new book will enrich people interested in manuscripts, in design, in Celtic art, in religious imagery, and in the world of Irish studies. It will be a revelation even to those familiar with the great Book of Kells. We are guided through full-page depictions of Christ, the Evangelists and their symbols, lavish openings to the Gospels, inventive lettering, and combinations of complex interlace, animals and human figures.
The book elucidates the imagery, with descriptions of how animals, including lion, peacock and snake, functioned symbolically, and explores the relationship between text and decoration, the scribes and artists, and technical aspects including the production of the manuscript, which remains mysterious.
The exceptional illustrations feature more than eighty actual-size reproductions of full pages, and enlarged details that allow the reader’s eye to dwell on the intricacy of decoration that is barely visible in the manuscript itself.
‘A sumptuous volume containing more than 80 pages from the manuscript reproduced full-size and in full, ravishing colour … a triumph of scholarly investigation and interpretation’ – The Financial Times
‘The value of the new edition of ‘The Book of Kells’ is not merely in the quality of the illustrations but the lucidity of the explanatory texts by Bernard Meehan. Although my ancestors came to Ireland some centuries after its creation and thus I cannot claim credit for it, I bask in pride that we did not destroy this masterpiece of European art – Colm Tóibín
‘Something to celebrate … Bernard Meehan has been pivotal in bringing to the fore this beautiful artefact that combines stunning visual art, spirituality and literature in a way that is surely unique’ – The Belfast Telegraph
> Bernard Meehan is Head of Research Collections and Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, owners of the Book of Kells. His curatorial responsibilities include the college’s corpus of medieval manuscripts, collections of Irish historical and literary papers, and the early printed books housed in the iconic three-hundred-year-old Long Room of the Old Library.
Veste editoriale: Cartonato + Cofanetto
Formato: 24,5×32
Pagine: 256
Immagini a colori: 230
Immagini b/n: 20
Lingua: GB
Anno: 2012
ISBN: 9780500238943




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