Excerpt from English Illuminated Manuscripts Kells, probably executed towards the end of the seventh century, burst upon us with fully developed designs. It would be out of place to attempt to conjecture to what remote period we are to look for the origin of the Celtic patterns which we meet with in Irish illuminated manuscripts; such speculations may be carried back almost indefinitely with no satisfactory result; but it is significant that the spiral or whorl which Westwood particularises as a specially Celtic detail of ...
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Excerpt from English Illuminated Manuscripts Kells, probably executed towards the end of the seventh century, burst upon us with fully developed designs. It would be out of place to attempt to conjecture to what remote period we are to look for the origin of the Celtic patterns which we meet with in Irish illuminated manuscripts; such speculations may be carried back almost indefinitely with no satisfactory result; but it is significant that the spiral or whorl which Westwood particularises as a specially Celtic detail of ornament is to be seen in the metal-work of shields of British make as early as the first century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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