Episode 34: The Book of Kells, Part I: An Uncertain History

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Sources:

Books

Casey, Denis. Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells. Dublin: Ireland Four Courts Press, 2020.
Cirker, Blanche, ed. The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color. New York: Dover Publications, 1982.
de Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Phaidon, 1986.
—–. Scribes and Illuminators. London: The British Museum, 1992.
—–. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. New York: Penguin, 2017.
Farr, Carol. The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience. London: British Library, 1997.
Hayman, Richard. Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Shire Publications, 2017. [available online]
Henry, Francoise. The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Herity, Michael and Aiden Breen. The Cathach of Colum Cille: An Introduction. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2002. [available online]
MacGabhann, Donncha. The Book of Kells: A Masterwork Revealed – Creators, Collaboration, and Campaigns. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022.
Meehan, Bernard. The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
—–. The Book of Kells. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2012.
—–. The Book of Kells: The Official Guide. London: Thames and Hudson, 2018.
Megaw, Ruth. Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989. [available online]
Moss, Rachel, Felicity O’ Mahony, and Jane Maxwell, editors. An Insular Odyssey : Manuscript Culture in Early Christian Ireland and Beyond. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017.
Nordenfalk, Carl. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book Illumination in the British Isles, 600-800. New York: George Braziller, 1977.
Robinson, Stanford. Illuminative Art in the Gospel Books of Durrow, Lindisfarne, and Kells. Dublin: Hodgest, Figgis, & Co. 1908. [available online]
Simms, George Otto. The Book of Kells. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1961. [available online]
—–. Exploring the Book of Kells. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2015. [available online]
Sullivan, Edward. The Book of Kells. London: Studio, 1920. [available online]

Articles/Essays

Brown, T.J, and C.D. Verey. “Northumbria and the Book of Kells.” Anglo-Saxon England 1 (1972): 219-246.
Corrigan, Ray. “Colmcille and the Battle of the Book: Technology, Law and Access to Knowledge in 6th Century Ireland.” Gikll 2 (September 2007): 1-14. [available online]
Gwynn, Aubrey. “Some Notes on the History of the Book of Kells.” Irish Historical Studies 9, no. 34 (September, 1954): 131-161.
Konieczy, Peter. “Ireland’s Medieval Treasure: The Book of Kells.” Medieval Warfare 6, no. 4 (September/October 2016): 50-52.
Meyvaert, Paul. “The Book of Kells and Iona.” The Art Bulletin 71, no. 1 (March 1989): 6-19.
O’ Sullivan, William. “The Donor of the Book of Kells.” Irish Historical Studies 11, no. 41 (March 1958): 5-7.
Stalley, Roger. “Investigating the Book of Kells.” Irish Arts Review Yearbook 10 (1994): 94-97.
—–. ” Iona, The Vikings, and the Making of the Book of Kells.” History Ireland 21, no. 3 (May/June 2013):14-17.
Wallace, Arminta. “From the archive: Handled with Care and Great Dedication.” The Irish Times. Originally published on October 24, 1953.