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The Book of Kells contains the four Latin gospels of the New Testament. The 680-page manuscript is intricately decorated in a style known as “insular majuscule” script.

The Book of Kells entry fee was raised from $20 to $26. To date, 184,000 of the total 200,000 books have been removed from the Old Library's well-known Long Room to temporary, climate-controlled ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.

The Book of Kells, named for its residence for a time at the abbey of Kells, Ireland, “is commonly regarded as the greatest illuminated manuscript of any era owing to the beauty of the artwork ...

It is only since the digitisation of the manuscript in 2014 that most of us been able to properly appreciate this aspect of The Book of Kells’ mastery, as much of this detail is nearly invisible ...

The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art. Detail from The Book of Kells, folio 291v.