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Yes. We don’t know for sure, but as Iona had an important monastery from which Kells monastery was founded it seems very likely that the book was started here.

Yes. We don’t know for sure, but the Kells monastery was wealthy and has a very long association with the manuscript.

Yes. Copies of charters relating to land around Kells were added into the manuscript on fols 5v-7r.

Yes. This term dervies from the Latin word insula or ‘island’ and is used to describe the art style associated with the islands of Ireland and Britain in the early medieval period.

You may find 1.12 The artistic background of the Book of Kells useful.