thank you for this morning gift! [:x] FWIW some line of explanation and links to explore
Book of Kells ~ Part 1- 7 Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGQPJIO5CM <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGQPJIO5CM> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9kg1B-M3mA <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9kg1B-M3mA> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVH5Jl_FG0 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVH5Jl_FG0> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp6mtZ14GRQ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp6mtZ14GRQ> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcanY9cWNpE <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcanY9cWNpE> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z256ycoFW4U <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z256ycoFW4U> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z256ycoFW4U <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z256ycoFW4U> The Book of Kells contains the four Gospels in Latin based on the Vulgate text which St Jerome completed in 384AD, intermixed with readings from the earlier Old Latin translation. The Gospel texts are prefaced by other texts, including "canon tables", or concordances of Gospel passages common to two or more of the evangelists; summaries of the gospel narratives (Breves causae); and prefaces characterizing the evangelists (Argumenta). The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule". It contains 340 folios, now measuring approximately 330 x 255 mm; they were severely trimmed, and their edges gilded, in the course of rebinding in the 19th century. As pages of the text and drawings are shared with viewers on camera, the narrator explains why so many experts believe The Book of Kells is an incredibly rare and valuable work of Irish art.Look more keenly at it and you will penetrate to the very shrine of art. You will make out intricacies, so delicate and so subtle, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this were the work of an angel, and not of a man .Native Celtic artists in the 700s and 800s A.D. took the great gospel symbols of the Eastern Church--the four cherubim, lion, calf, eagle and man--and in the cooler air of Europe's northwest transformed them. The Celtic shapes and symbols used by the artists have been adopted into many aspects of today's art. "Here you may see the face of majesty, divinely drawn, here the mystic symbols of the Evangelists, each with wings, now six, now four, now two; here the eagle, there the calf, here the man and there the lion, and other forms almost infinite. Look at them superficially with the ordinary glance, and you would think it is an erasure, and not tracery. " The manuscript has mystified and motivated writers from W.B. Yeats to James Joyce and Umberto Eco, and its intricate Celtic knot work continues to influence artists and craftsmen and inspire spiritual as well as visionary one today. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... <no_reply@...> wrote: > > from around 800 AD. The artwork is worth a look: > > > http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v >
