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Book Review
An Insular Odyssey: Manuscript Culture in Early Christian Ireland and Beyond. Edited by Rachel Moss, Felicity O’Mahony and Jane Maxwell
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 798
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Reviewer:
Hamburger, Jeffrey (Hamburger, Jeffrey)
Subjects
dates:
0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999
media:
Books / Manuscripts / Illuminated manuscripts
places:
Ireland
subjects:
Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, London) / Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin) / Festschriften / Essays / Liturgy / Manuscript illumination / Provenance / Scientific analysis / Technical analysis / Pigments / Colour / Nationalism / Goldsmiths / Illuminators
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The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells
09/1943 | 486 | 83
Pages: 228-231
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Author:
Rosenau, Helen (Rosenau, Helen; Rosenau, H.)
Subjects
dates:
0700-0799
places:
Egypt / Ireland
subjects:
Mary, Virgin: and Child / Iconography / Visual sources
subjects:
Isis / Horus / Egyptian
subjects:
Christian iconography / Early Christian / Influence
works:
Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin)
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Isis Holding Her Son Horus. Egyptian. Grey Schist. Height, 27 cm. (Museum, Cairo). B-Senmut Holding One of Queen Hatshepsut's Daughters. About 1480 B. C. Black Granite. Height, 60 cm. (Museum, Cairo). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. C-Isis Holding the Figure of King Seti I on Her Knees. About 1300 B. C. Relief in the Wall of the Temple of Abydos. Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. D-The Virgin and Child. From a Panel of Woven Silk. Sixth to Seventh Century. Height, 14 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-The Golden Madonna. Ottonian. Beginning of the Eleventh Century. Wood with Thin Plate of Gilded Silver. Height, 75 cm. (Treasury of the Cathedral, Essen). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells
Western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-The Virgin and Child. From the Book of Kells. 760-820. (Trinity College, Dublin). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells
Article
Kells Portraits and Eastern Ornament
09/1938 | 426 | 73
Pages: 121-123
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Author:
Picton, Harold (Picton, Harold)
Subjects
places:
Ireland
subjects:
Irish / Illuminated manuscripts
subjects:
Christian iconography / Assyrian / Influence
works:
Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin)
works:
Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, London)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
A-Lion of St. Mark, from Cod. Lat. 9389 (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris); B-Gold Dish, from the Nagy-Szent Miklos Treasure. About A. D. 860 (Kunsthist. Museum, Vienna); C-Winged Horse. About A. D. 700 (Hsien-Yang-Hsien, Shansi); D-Head of St. John. Detail from the Book of Kells. Late Eighth Century (Trinity College, Dublin); E-Waldalgesheim Flagon, Detail. About 380 B. C.; F-St. Matthew, Cod. 1395, Fol. 418 r. Eighth Century (Stifts-Bibliothek, St. Gallen); G-Head of Matthew Symbol. Detail from the Lindisfarne Gospels. About A. D. 700 (British Museum); H-Knives. Bronze (Minusinsk); J-Gold Deer from Kul Oba, near Kertch. About 490 B. C.; K-Detail from the Book of Kells. Fol. 292 r.; L-Gold Plaque from Verkhne-Udinsk, South Irkutsk (Hermitage, Leningrad). Kells Portraits and Eastern Ornament
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The Enamelling and Metallesque Origin of the Ornament in the Book of Durrow
06/1908 | 63 | 13
Pages: 138+143-145
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Author:
Doran, Joseph M. (Doran, Joseph M.)
Subjects
dates:
0500-0599
places:
England / Ireland / Wales
subjects:
Enamels / Bookbinding / Techniques / Illuminated manuscripts / Medieval / Metalwork / Celtic
subjects:
Geometric patterns / Design
subjects:
Irish painting / Metalwork
works:
Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin)
works:
Book of Durrow (Trinity College Library, Dublin)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
Fig 4 Handle of bronze vessel found at Moklebust, Norway
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 1. Fragment of Enamelled Bronze in the Royal Irish Academy Collection, Dublin
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 2 Decorative motif from the book of Cells, St Mark Gospel XV, 25
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Fig. 3 Symbol of St Matthew from the Book of Durrow
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 5 Cross from the Book of Durrow
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 6 Decorative motives from the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells and the enameller's versions
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 7 Interlaced patterns from the Gospel of St John
Western art unattributed:
Fig. 8. Enamelled Gold Bracelet Found in Radnorshire. In the British Museum