Secrets of the Book of Kells

The Book of Kells is a vibrant illustrated Latin manuscript.

The Book of Kells is kept at Trinity College Library Dublin.

The manuscript was created around the year 800 AD.

Columban monks from Ireland and Scotland made the Book of Kells.

The manuscript has 340 leaves, adding up to 680 pages.

Each page is made of high-quality calf vellum parchment.

The text uses iron gall ink in insular majuscule script.

Ten full-page illustrations richly decorate the manuscript.

Colours come from many substances, some imported from afar.

The Abbey of Kells was the manuscript’s home for centuries.

Every twelve weeks visitors see two pages rotated on display.

The Book of Kells is a pinnacle of Western calligraphy art.