Book of Kells online!

[filkferengi]

The Book of Kells is up for view online:

http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v

You can zoom in & out; the level of detail & the colors are amazing!

Do we know anything about manuscript art or illumination in the QT books?

Comments

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

That is so cool! I used to do Celtic knotwork art and a lot of the designs were from the Book of Kells, though I'd never actually looked at the originals.

I suppose some of those books Gen treasured so highly in his library room could have been picture books. :)

[filkferengi]

As Lois Bujold says, "That sounds like a job for Fanfic Woman!"

:)

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

OMG, Thank you for posting this! My Art History professor challenged me last semester to find four mice in this Chi-Rho-Iota page and I *still* haven't found those darn mice! Do you happen to know what page the Chi-Rho-Iota is on? My textbooks says it Folio 34 Recto, but I couldn't find it in the page numbers....
Thanks again!

[filkferengi]

No idea; sorry.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, try this (http://likedai.egloos.com/1117259).

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

I think I see them! ^_^

[keestone.livejournal.com]

I think it's #66

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got to see the Book of Kells when I visited Trinity College a few years ago. It was the same vacation that I got to meet up with (in Oxford) rowana , emerald_happy , emmaco , and hebe0 . Best vacation EVER.

[filkferengi]

Wow, that *does* sound fun!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was. Plus, I dream about the food at the Turf Tavern--best meal in all of England.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

THE TURF IS THE ACTUAL VERY BEST.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

YOU WERE THE ONE WHO RECOMMENDED IT AND YOU WERE RIIIIIIGHT. I took a picture of the pathway to the door and it is hanging on my wall. I sigh when I look at it.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you actually ended up going! Also that is a great thing to have on your wall. Soooo pretty. :D

[keestone.livejournal.com]

Goregeous, isn't it?! I love the long room too.

[bookishbabe.livejournal.com]

So I'm not the only one who's stalked Sounis to the UK? Mind the Gap...indeed.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Ha, no. Apparently it's pretty common.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I have seen it too! And met all of those people, but not on that trip! :D :D :D