{"id":138127,"date":"2019-03-09T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138127"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:43:40","slug":"the-book-of-kells-is-now-viewable-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/the-book-of-kells-is-now-viewable-online.html","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Kells is now viewable online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the masterpiece art treasures of Ireland, the Book of Kells is a massive illuminated manuscript of the four gospels, dating back to the early 9th Century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138128\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138128 size-large\" title=\"The Book of Kells - Jesus enthroned\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned-499x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned-499x650.jpg 499w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned-768x1001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 85vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just some random picture of Christ enthroned, from the Book of Kells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The book resides in the library of Trinity College in Dublin (where I once had the opportunity to see it; it&#8217;s in a display case with a changing page open for view). But newly rescanned pages are now also available online through the college&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/03\/the-medieval-masterpiece-the-book-of-kells-is-now-digitized-put-online.html\">The article that picture came from<\/a>\u00a0(which has lots of additional information)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.tcd.ie\/home\/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v\">The Trinity College website where the book is<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the masterpiece art treasures of Ireland, the Book of Kells is a massive illuminated manuscript of the four gospels, dating back to the early 9th Century. The book resides in the library of Trinity College in Dublin (where I once had the opportunity to see it; it&#8217;s in a display case with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/the-book-of-kells-is-now-viewable-online.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Book of Kells is now viewable online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,66,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-books","category-media-art","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-Book-of-Kells-Jesus-enthroned.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17616,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/unblogged-bits-tue-15-jun-10-0200.html","url_meta":{"origin":138127,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 15-Jun-10 0200)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jun-10 12:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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