The Book of Kells
around 800
page 28 verso [back, or left]:
"Matthew the Evangelist"
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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