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Book of Deer: Folio 5 Recto
Folio 5 recto from the Book of Deer; the text of the Gospel of St. Matthew from 1:18 through 1:21. Note the Chi Rho monogram in the upper left corner. The margins contain Gaelic text. The Book of Deer...
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Brecbennoch of St. Columba
The Monymusk Reliquary is an VIII century Scottish reliquary made of wood and metal characterised by an Insular fusion of Gaelic and Pictish design and Anglo-Saxon metalworking, probably by Ionan...
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Folio 285 Recto
Folio 285 recto from the Book of Kells; “Una autem sabbati valde…”[Now upon the first day of the week...] (St. Luke 24:1).
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Corpus-Cotton Gospels: Folio 1 Recto
Folio 1 recto from Corpus Christi College, MS 197B (Otho-Corpus Gospels); the Eagle of St. John. The Otho-Corpus Gospels is a badly damaged and fragmentary 8th century illuminated manuscript. It was...
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Ardagh Chalice
The Ardagh Chalice is a large, two-handled silver cup, decorated with gold, gilt bronze, brass, lead pewter and enamel, which has been assembled from 354 separate pieces; this complex construction is...
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Nigg Stone Restored
In April of 2013, restoration work on the Nigg Stone, an incomplete Class II Pictish cross-slab, perhaps dating to the end of the 8th century, was completed in Edinburgh, and the stone returned to...
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Stowe Missal: Folio 1 Recto
Folio 1 recto (incipit of the Gospel of St. John) from the Stowe Missal (MS D II 3, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin). The post Stowe Missal: Folio 1 Recto appeared first on Eccentric Bliss.
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Foundation of the Monastery of Deer
Folio 3 of the Book of Deer (Leabhar Dhèir) contains a continuation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew and a Scottish Gaelic account of the foundation of the Monastery of Deer by SS. Columba and...
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Brecbannoch
The Monymusk Reliquary, Plate 11 from Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Volume II, Aberdeen: printed for the Spalding Club, 1856. BRECBANNOCH. Between the years 1204 and 1211, King William the Lion...
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Grave Slabs at Keills
Two grave slabs at Keills, Knapdale, Plate LVII from Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Volume II, Aberdeen: printed for the Spalding Club, 1856. The grave slabs here represented are in the ruined chapel...
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St. Luke Portrait from the Lichfield Gospels
Portrait of St. Luke (perhaps also representing High King of Ireland, Flaithbertach mac Loingsig, r. 728-734 (723-729), † 765), Lichfield Gospels, p. 218.
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