vastly important
The Book of Kells is a fantastically old religious manuscript that absolutely defies description in regard to it's artistry, the designs and monograms in it have been considered by anyone who's studied it to be one of the most fantastic pieces of artwork ever to come out of Europe.
We're not really sure exactly when the book was written, but the best guesses put it's birtday between the 6th and 7th centuries. It contains the four Gospels of the Bible along with a list of Hebrew names and Eusebian canons, and may have been written by St. Columba himself. Wow. Suddenly i feel as if this blog isn't quite worthy to be named after such an amazing piece of awesome, but it's so freaking cool that it stays. And anyway, it's provided something to actually talk about.
The book was kept in the Kells monastery to save it from Vikings (the stealth pirates of the North), but was stolen eventually by a complete and utter waste of oxygen, who took the (in comparison) worthless gold jewel-encrusted cover of the Book and threw the manuscript itself into a ditch. I hope that guy is somehow magically alive and reads this and realizes what moron he is. Only a few small parts of the Book were lost, and in it's entire 1000+ year life it's only lost 30 out of about 340 pages, largely because at some point in time i'm too lazy to look up the Book was given to the Trinity College in Dublin, and of course they're completely anal (and rightfully so) about taking care of it. It's only like one of the Top 5 most important things in that continent.
We're not really sure exactly when the book was written, but the best guesses put it's birtday between the 6th and 7th centuries. It contains the four Gospels of the Bible along with a list of Hebrew names and Eusebian canons, and may have been written by St. Columba himself. Wow. Suddenly i feel as if this blog isn't quite worthy to be named after such an amazing piece of awesome, but it's so freaking cool that it stays. And anyway, it's provided something to actually talk about.
The book was kept in the Kells monastery to save it from Vikings (the stealth pirates of the North), but was stolen eventually by a complete and utter waste of oxygen, who took the (in comparison) worthless gold jewel-encrusted cover of the Book and threw the manuscript itself into a ditch. I hope that guy is somehow magically alive and reads this and realizes what moron he is. Only a few small parts of the Book were lost, and in it's entire 1000+ year life it's only lost 30 out of about 340 pages, largely because at some point in time i'm too lazy to look up the Book was given to the Trinity College in Dublin, and of course they're completely anal (and rightfully so) about taking care of it. It's only like one of the Top 5 most important things in that continent.
posted by seamus at 1:43 PM
1 Comments:
Oh, yeah, now this is sounding familiar to me.
I finally have you bookmarked on my computer. Last night I kept putting in bookofkells and it kept telling me that you didn't exist. Then when Scott came to my office today, he remembered that I needed the word THE. So okay, I'm a moron.
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