# Book of Durrow [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Irish]() - Date: 0651-0700 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. A.4.5 \[57\]\), 245 x 145 mm ## Commentary Book of Durrow 650-700 Manuscript \(Ms. A.4.5 \[57\]\), 245 x 145 mm Trinity College Library, Dublin Folio 192 verso at the beginning of the St John gospel is one of the magnificent carpet pages that book illumination in the British Isles so delightfully specialized in. The religious symbol of the cross, or to be more precise, a version of the Greek cross as a sign of the victory of Christ, is distinctly on the small side in its location at the heart of a gold-rimmed disc within the centre square, a disc otherwise filled to the last with tangled interlace motifs. The outer areas are decorated another impenetrably tangle, this time featuring inter-linked zoomorphic creatures. ## Related artworks - [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]() - [Book of Kells]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()