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Two types of manuscripts dominated: small format gospels to be used by preachers and missionaries or in private worship (e.g. the Book of Dimma and the Book of Mulling), and large works, reserved for the liturgical services of the monasteries (such as the Book of Kells). [1] The Irish monks took part in the conversion of Scotland and the north ...
General: Corthals, Johan. "Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales (MS-Omit)". Brussels: Van den Gheyn, Joseph (1905).Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique.
The Book of Kells (Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illustrated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, [1] containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
(Corpus Irish Gospel) ... London, Society of Antiquaries, ... Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book before Gutenberg. New York: Crescent Books, 1995.
The surviving illumination of the manuscript contains a number of illuminated initials, three Evangelist portrait pages, and one page with an Evangelist's symbol (the eagle of St. John). [2] The pocket gospel book is a distinctively Insular format, of which the Stowe Missal and Book of Mulling are other leading examples. [3]
The influence of Insular art affected all subsequent European medieval art, especially in the decorative elements of Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts. [7] Surviving examples of Insular art are mainly illuminated manuscripts, metalwork and carvings in stone, especially stone crosses. Surfaces are highly decorated with intricate patterning, with ...