1. What do we need to notice?
Chi Rho Iota page Book of Matthew, chapter one, verse eighteen from The Book of Kells late 8th or early 9th century oxgall inks and pigments on vellum
What do we need to notice?
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) is celebrated for its lavish decoration. The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin based on a Vulgate text, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule".
The place of origin of the Book of Kells is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around 561 by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. In 806, following a Viking raid on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. It must have been close to the year 800 that the Book of Kells was written, although there is no way of knowing if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location.
It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.

2. interlace patterns

3. ribbon interlace from the Book of Durrow 650-700
Making Manuscripts
The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript

4. Page with Mark the Evangelist Book of Mark, Godescalc Evangelistary ink, gold, colors on vellum
Produced in Charlemagne's Court.
What do we need to notice?

5. Page with Christ in Majesty Book of Mark, Godescalc Evangelistary ink, gold, colors on vellum
Produced in Charlemagne's Court.
What do we need to notice?

6. Page with Matthew the Evangelist Book of Matthew
Ebbo Gospels, c
Smarthistory: Saint Matthew from the Ebbo Gospel

7. Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples
Aachen Gospels of Otto III c. 1000

8. The Garden of Gethsemane
The Kiss of Judas
Aachen Gospels of Otto III c. 1000