Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Davis, Courtney, 1946-

Publication

London : Blandford, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Graham-Flynn, Fiona.

Description

96 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Before Christianity -- The spread of Christianity -- Ascetic monasticism -- Celtic monasteries -- Monastic life -- The scriptorium -- Writing materials -- Pens -- Pigments -- The illuminated letter -- The script -- Colum-cille -- The Cathach -- The Book of Durham -- The Book of Durrow -- Saint Willibrod & the Echternach Gospels -- The Durham Gospels -- The Venerable Bede -- Lindisfarne & its Gospel -- Gospels of St Chad -- Canterbury -- The Book of Kells -- The Book of Armagh -- The Book of Dimma -- The St GGall Gospel Book -- The four evangelists -- The cross -- Angels & man -- Zoomorphic ornaments -- The tree of life -- Spirals -- Interlaced knotwork -- Key patterns.

ISBN

0713726105

LCCN

^^^96204050^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library