Book of kells illuminated manuscript

Public-domain images from the Book of Kells, free for your use, here at the Medieval History site.

The Book of Kells contains portraits of all the Evangelists as well as of Christ. This portrait of John has a notably intricate border. As part of the general celebration of St Patrick’s Day at Trinity, the Book of Kells in its entirety is now viewable in the Library’s new Digital Collections online repository. The link is slow, slow, slow but the images are gorgeous, one of the great treasures of the early Middle Ages. The Book of Kells (Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais) (Dublin, Trinity College…

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Bernard Meehan delves into the rich ornamentation and explores dense symbolism of the Book of Kells in a selection of pages from the manuscript

Celtic clip art. Irish Celtic illumination page decoration from the book Kells: animals, people, page decoration elements and the punctuation images. A large quantity of images hand drawn in vector eps format can be used as dingbats clip art to further decorate the page. Royalty free Celtic illuminated manuscripts illustration and vector clip art.