by Blanche Cirker · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486243450
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«The Book of Kells» is the color plate book of the medieval manuscript edited by Blanche Cirker, in paperback, 32 pages, in English.
Reproduces 32 pages of the Book of Kells, a medieval Irish gospel book, with full-page decorations, portraits and folios in insular calligraphy. Includes a bestiary with lions, lambs, eagles, otters, cats, dragons, birds, fish and serpents, and one of the earliest depictions of the Virgin and Child in a Western manuscript.
1982 edition from Dover Publications, with plates taken from a facsimile of the original manuscript held at Trinity College Dublin; the selection is by Blanche Cirker.
For students and enthusiasts of medieval art, manuscript illumination and Celtic culture, and for those interested in Christian iconography.
