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Explanation of the Symbols of the Evangelists

About the Book of Kells

The Symbols of the Evangelists
from the Book of Kells
and the Prophets
The four panels are renditions of the symbols of the Evangelists from the
Book of Kells. The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels
written c.800, and now in Trinity College, Dublin. It is, perhaps, the richest of
all illuminated manuscripts. [...]