- Tag Archives: Abbey of Kells. The Book of Kells at Trinity College, Dublin. November 4, 2013 by Christa Thompson @ChristaTravels.
- Later, an Irish farmer discovered the manuscripts sticking out of the mud in his field. He turned it into the Abbey of Kells, which was its home for centuries.
- Survivors fled to back to Ireland to the Abbey of Kells founded by Columba in County Meath where work on the manuscript was completed.
- BOOK OF KELLS, IRELAND history the book of kells description The Book of Kells is a medieval illuminated manuscript containing Four Gospels in Latin.
- The name Book of Kells is derived from the Abbey of Kells in Kells, County Meath, which was its home for much of the medieval period.
- About this item
- Title: Abbey Of Kells Kells County Meath Ireland; High Cross And Round Tower
- Type: Photo Print
- The book seems to have been kept at the Abbey of Kells near Dublin from the late medieval period through to the 1650’s, hence the name.
- Kells was an important place on one of the five ancient roads that came out of Tara. This town is best known as the site of Kells Abbey...
- 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...
- During the later medieval and early modern periods the Book of Kells was kept in the Abbey of Kells (Mainistir Cheanannais in Irish) in Kells, County Meath...