# Book of Kells [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Irish]() - Date: 0751-0800 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. A. I. 6 \[58\]\), 330 x 241 mm ## Commentary Book of Kells c. 800 Manuscript \(Ms. A. I. 6 \[58\]\), 330 x 241 mm Trinity College Library, Dublin The Book of Kells contains the four gospels in a Latin translation. There are 340 folios \(678 pages\) in colour decorated with miniatures, initials and symbols. It is likely that each gospel was intended to be headed by a page with a full-size miniature of the evangelist symbol, an evangelist portrait and a decorative rendering of the initial of the first word of the text. The page on folio 200r shows the names of the ancestors of Christ \(Luke 1:23-6\) with the opening letter of every line filled with intricate ornament. ## Related artworks - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()