The Book of Kells

My parents are in Ireland, and they stopped in to see The Book of Kells; sending me pictures was the sweetest thing, as the Trinity College Library is on my #bucketlist #bookitlist of #placestoread ... #bibliophile

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GatheringBooks

Book of Kells | R a MacAvoy

#LiteraryLuck Day 7: I did a Book of Kells Pilgrimage at the Trinity College in Dublin while I was in #Ireland last year. I posted about this for our Photo Journal Tuesdays at GatheringBooks. Here are more photos: https://wp.me/pDlzr-jfr

vkois88, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks You always have the best books!!! 5y

vkois88 Oh, so beautiful! 5y

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ofbooksandme

Book of Kells | R a MacAvoy

I'm creating a hashtag called #Medievalitsy (see what I did there?) just because, but if you like it we can do it a regular thing, like "On Wednesday we wear coat of mail".
I don't know if you know, but I'm starting my PhD on medieval lit and I'm keen on sharing what I love with you.
In this case, The Book of Kells. Probably the most beautiful book in the world. Medieval books were not so much to read as they were works of art. (Cont on comment)

ofbooksandme The Book of Kells was created sometime in the IXth century in the Abbey of Kells. It's drawings are an exquisite mixture of Christian and Celtic arts,thoigh it was severely mutilated in the XIXth century (a destine shared in that period by many manuscripts). 6y

ofbooksandme What I shared with you is the first folio of the St John's Gospel (the Book of Kells is a Bible). In between all those drawings it says "In principio erat verbum et verbum". Yes, it says that. I know, right? And at the top there's a cute drawing of St. John. 6y

ofbooksandme This was loooong. If you got here, thank you! If you want to #askmedievalkaru (that's me) something, please feel free to do it! I love talking about this! 6y

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SmallestAct @ofbooksandme Did you see the movie The Book of Kells? It has amazing artwork, I love the animation. It's about the people who illuminated the texts. 6y

ofbooksandme @SmallestAct Yes! I love it (the same Irish studio has another movie called The song of the Sea that I also highly recommend). The animation of the film is so deeply entrenched with the style of the manuscript. It's truly amazing. 6y

SmallestAct @ofbooksandme The song of the sea is high on my 'To watch'-stack! I'm so glad I found someone who knows these movies:D 6y

BookishMe Fascinating! 6y

LoveToReadLiveToRead Interesting post! I really like this type of art, I remember studying some similar stuff in school. I think it must have been the Lindisfarne gospels as I‘m from the north east of England so that would make sense. (edited) 6y

LoveToReadLiveToRead Also, The Song of the Sea made me weep like a baby when I watched it on a flight a few years ago! ššš 6y

ofbooksandme @BookishMe I know, right? Heres a random fact for your enjoyment: contrary to what the drawings show, the copy of the actual text is somewhat careless. It has many mistakes, omitted words and repeated phrases. All for this apparently shows that it was not meant for daily use, but for very few special occasions (like Easter mass) 6y

ofbooksandme @Lovetoreadlivetoread Yes! It just have been.The Lindisfarne gospels share some of the same Celtic influences. Another beautiful manuscript mixing the Christian, Celtic and Saxon traditions. If you're ever I Dublin and haven't been before, I recommend you go see Kells. It's such a precious experience. 6y

BookishMe š‘¨š¸½ š‘¨š¸½ 6y

drokka I visited the book when I was in Dublin, but it was open to a page with only text that day (they turn the page every morning). I felt a bit underwhelmed. I had to keep reminding myself that it's existence alone is an achievement. Then I saw other gorgeous psalters there and fell in love with one. I need to find the journal I wrote it's name in, but it was just a wee thing. 6y

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IamIamIam

The Book of Kells | R. A. MacAvoy

Yes, #Littens, this room smells just as good as it looks!!! #thestuffofdreams #TheLongRoom #TrinityCollege #Dublin #booksniffer

TamarackTrail Please tell me you're allowed to climb the ladders..... 7y

goodbyefrancie Oh my! 7y

Reviewsbylola Whoa! š¨ 7y

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IamIamIam @TamarackTrail I SOOOO wish!!!!! I wanted to climb the spiral staircase at the entrance, though!!!! š¨š¨š¨ 7y

Debiw781 I loved my visit to Ireland! Dragged my husband to this ā¯¤ļø¸ 7y

MrBook Oh, heck yeah!!! 7y

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lauralovesbooks1

The Book of Kells | R. A. MacAvoy

I'm not going to lie -- I got a little teary-eyed today when I stood in Trinity Library.

Bambolina_81 I so want to visit there! My friend went to uni there and I was so envious š¨ 7y

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TeR

The Book of Kells | R. A. MacAvoy

And here we have made it! The book of Kells and the long room at Trinity College. Gorgeousš’

LeahBergen ā¯¤ā¯¤ 7y

ValerieAndBooks Nice š¨ 7y

PurpleyPumpkin I loved it there. THE place to visit if you're a bibliophile. Glad you're enjoying it!š‰āļø¸ 7y

rabbitprincess The Long Room smells so good! Mmmmmm old book smell ā™�ļø¸ 7y

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BeththeBookDragon

Book of Kells | R a MacAvoy

An example from the Irish Nationality Room at the Cathedral of Learning at Pitt

rockpools Stunning! 7y

Louise Gorgeous! ā¯¤ 7y

Suzze Wow! 7y

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mklong Beautiful! 7y

beaniebankbeth Love the Cathedral of Learning. It's like Hogwarts. 7y

Kimzey Love thisā¯£ 7y

LeahBergen ā¯¤ā¯¤ 7y

BeththeBookDragon @beaniebankbeth My 5 year old swears he saw Harry Potter while we were there! 7y

beaniebankbeth @BeththeBookDragon I do have photographic evidence of graffiti carved in either one of the walls or tables that says "Ron + Hermione". ? 7y

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