Research Catalog

Title

Celtic ornament : art of the scribe / Courtney Davis ; additional text & calligraphy by Fiona Graham-Flynn.

Author

Davis, Courtney, 1946-

Publication

• London : Cassell, 2001.
• ©2001

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Details

Additional Authors

Graham-Flynn, Fiona.

Description

96 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• Calligraphy, Celtic
• Decoration and ornament, Celtic
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Celtic

Note

• Originally published: London : Blandford, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Before Christianity -- The Spread of Christianity -- Ascetic Monasticism -- The Celtic Monasteries -- The Monastic Life -- The Scriptorium -- Writing Materials -- Pens -- Pigments -- The Illuminated Letter -- The script -- Colum-cille -- The Cathach -- The Book of Durham: Fragment 1 -- The Book of Durrow -- Saint Willibrod and the Echternach Gospels -- The Durham Gospels: Fragment 2 -- The Venerable Bede -- Lindisfarne and its Gospel -- The Gospels of St Chad -- Canterbury -- The Book of Kells -- The Book of Armagh -- The Book of Dimma -- The St Gall Gospel Book -- The Four Evangelists -- The Cross -- Angels and Man -- Zoomorphic Ornaments -- The Tree of Life -- Spirals -- Interlaced Knotwork -- Key Patterns.

Call Number

ReCAP 19-4975

ISBN

• 0304359629
• 9780304359622

OCLC

46333004

Author

Davis, Courtney, 1946-

Title

Celtic ornament : art of the scribe / Courtney Davis ; additional text & calligraphy by Fiona Graham-Flynn.

Publisher

London : Cassell, 2001.

Copyright Date

©2001

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Graham-Flynn, Fiona.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 19-4975