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[[Image:Bookofkells.gif|thumb|right|Book of Kells, Folio 183v, Text from Mark. See also [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells].]]The '''Book of Kells''' represents the high point of manuscript [[Gospels]] produced in pre-Norman Britain. The Book of Kells, also known as the '''Book of Columba''' , is an ornately illustrated manuscript Gospel that was produced around 800 by Celtic [[monk]]s. The test text is written in Latin.
==History==
The name for the Book of Kells come from the [[Abbey]] of Kells in Kells, County Meath in Ireland where it was kept between about the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. It remained there when the abbey was dissolved in the twelfth century and made into a [[parish]] [[church]]. In 1654, the book was moved to Dublin for safekeeping when Cromwell’s cavalry was quartered in the church. In 1661, the book was presented to Trinity College in Dublin where it has remained. The book has been re-bound a number of times and exists today in four volumes after a re-binding in 1953.
[[Image:KellsFol034rChiRhoMonogram.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Book of Kells: Folio 34r contains the [[Labarum|Chi Rho]] monogram. Chi and Rho are the first two letters of the word ''[[Jesus Christ|Christ]]'' in Greek.]]The place , or places , where the Book of Kells was created is not known. Traditionally, it is thought the book was begun in the time of St. [[Columba]] in the sixth century. Based upon palaeographic evidence involving the style of script used in writing the book, it appears the manuscript was written after St. Columba’s death, thus discounting the traditional premise. Among the theories of its creation is that it was begun in Scotland, possibly at Monastery of [[Iona]], and then brought to Kells Abbey when the monks of Iona moved to Kells to escape Viking raids at Iona. Since the book is not finished other possibilities about its creation have risen: such ideas as that creation of the book continued at Kells or not.
==Contents==
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08614b.htm Catholic Encycopedia: Book of Kells]
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