The Book of Kells: Forty-eight pages and details in color from the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin

About this book

As its custodian since 1970 Peter Brown the Librarian of Trinity College has come to know the book intimately. For this edition he has chosen the most important of the large illustrations plus a series of enlargements showing the unbelievable minuteness of the detail - arabesques interlaced patterns weird and witty monsters and grotesqueries - a combination of high seriousness and bizarre humor that is as astonishing now as when the Book was written. -- from the book jacket