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BOOK OF KELLS

By: BLANCHE CIRKER

Price: $7.95

Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.:

Seller ID: IM169492

ISBN: 0486243451

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

"Here you may see the face of majesty, divinely drawn, here the mystic symbols of the Evangelists. . . . You will make out intricacies, so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colours so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." -- Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hiberniae, ca. 1185.Gerald of Wales wrote his ecstatic description of what is most probably the Book of Kells 800 years ago, some 300 years after the work appeared. It remains the best description; he felt and conveyed the Book's power,...
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