The book was created sometime around the year 800 but scholars have been unable to determine where. The book is believed to have been brought to Kells following a Viking raid on the monastery on the island of Iona, Scotland, in 806.
The book gets its name from the monastery of Kells, County Meath, Ireland. Where did The Book of Kells get its name? In the fifteenth century, a poem was added. Added to these tables, each Gospel has a summary and a preface.ĭuring the eleventh and twelfth centuries blank pages in the book were used to record property transactions at the monastery. Also found in the book are so-called canon tables, which are indexes of passages that occur in two or more of the Gospels. The Book of Kells consists mainly of the four Gospels. Thirty folios of the original manuscript have been lost through the centuries and the edges of the existing manuscript were severely trimmed during a rebinding in the nineteenth century. However, in its original form the Book of Kells was both thicker and larger.
It consists of 340 folios made from calfskin vellum. The Book of Kells is 13 inches wide and 10 inches high. Together with the Gospels of Lindisfarne and the Book of Durrow, I would say that the Book of Kells is one of the greatest contributions to medieval art ever to come out of the British Isles. Here are ten things you should know about this ancient masterpiece.
You simply can’t travel to the capital of Ireland without the Book of Kells being mentioned. Arguably the most famous artifact on display in Dublin is the Book of Kells (also known as the Book of Columba) at Trinity College.
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