Medieval Illuminated manuscript: Book of Durrow

The Book of Durrow is one of the earliest fully-illuminated insular gospel books—created almost one hundred years before the Book of Kells. It may or may not have been made at the Abbey of Durrow, but we know it resided there from about 900, when the High King of Ireland, Flinn Sanna, had a shrine made for it. It was later privately held until it was donated to the Trinity College Library (along with the Book of Kells) in the late 1600s.

The Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells are often linked—they are similar in ...