The Book of Kells, around 800, p124r: 'Tunc crucifixerant'
 

The Book of Kells
around 800
page 124 recto [front, or right]: "Tunc crucifixerant Xpi cum eo duos latrones"
[Then were crucified with him two thieves]

Dublin, Ireland: Library of Trinity College
illuminated vellum [calfskin] manuscript
the four New Testament Gospels, Vulgate [Latin translation]
created by  Columban monks who lived in a monastery on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland
monastery founded late in the sixth century by an Irish monk, St Colm Cille

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