The Celtic Art Coracle Volume 2 Issue 8
COVER (artwork: Aidan Meehan)
Contents:
v02.08
Cover (artwork: Aidan Meehan)
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Publisher's imprint page and logo
Continuing with Angular Capitals, sampled from other Celtic manuscripts in
recent issues, we come now to the greatest of them all, the Book of Kells.
Angular capitals are used almost always for display texts like headlines in
the gospel books, chapter headings and other special passages.
I redrew the
examples in this issue from all the decorated pages that I could find in the Book
of Kells on which Angular Capitals appear, using the Françoise Henry edition,
which I think is the most accessible facsimile copy of the Book of Kells, and the
most useful, as it contains all the pages continuing decoration of any
significance. Examples in this issue are handwritten and illustrated with notes
by me.
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"Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells"
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 8R
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 8R
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folios
12R,13R,18R
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folios 15V,
16V,29R
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folios
124R
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 114V,
two-animal
knot
pattern
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 130RV,
illuminated
Capital
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 130RV,
illuminated Capital
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Knotted Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio
183R, illumiated Capital
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 188V;
203R
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 285R,
detail of inhabited-tree border pattern
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Angular Capitals from the Book of Kells, folio 29R,
Woven Lion illustrated, with notes
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"Molaise of Devenish", original silkscreen by
Aidan
Meehan