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Reading a page from the Book of Kells: Folio 34r

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Reading a page from the Book of Kells: Folio 34r 191 comments We have covered a lot of ground this week, and now is a good time to see how you might read and interpret a page yourself with the tools you have got thus far. In a sense you have got many of the “words and grammar” of the Book of Kells, and now is the time to see if we can put these together to read the story the book is telling us. We will be working on folio 34r.   Fig 1. The Chi Rho page,  folio 34r.  © The Board of Trinity College, University of Dublin. Please open folio 34r on the  digital version of the Book of Kells  or use this  image . We would recommend viewing the folio in  different window  while going through this exercise. This will help you examine the image while reading our instructions. You can do this, by  right clicking the link using your mouse  and selecting  ‘Open in New Window’ . This new window can be resized using the cor...
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Mags Harnett - Scribe2Scribe pangur ban

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Mags Harnett - Scribe2Scribe 193 comments Another example of using the Book in modern times can be seen in Dublin-based artist  Mags Harnett’s  work. In the past, the motivation of artists copying the artwork of the Book of Kells lay in creating accurate copies of the artwork that spoke of Irishness or were seen as appropriate to religious contexts. The text of the Book of Kells is written in Latin, and as we have seen, some of its symbolism assumes an understanding of quite complex theological ideas. In spite of this, the artwork of the manuscript remains accessible and familiar, even if it is now interpreted in very different ways. For her exhibition, Scribe2Scribe held at Trinity College in 2014, Dublin-based artist Mags Harnett copied the style of the Book of Kells, imitating the calligraphy and decoration of certain pages, but changed the language in the most radical way she could think of; into text messaging language.   Fig 1. Mags Harnett work...
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