Bibliography — Classification Index

M 5.1: Prehistory, cultural history: Art: Illumination

21205.
Nordenfalk (Carl): One hundred and fifty years of varying views on the early Insular gospel books.
In Ireland and insular art (1987), pp. 1–6.
21573.
Barbet-Massin (Dominique): The programme of illumination in the Insular Gospel books.
In Islands in a global context (2017), pp. 1–14.
19930.
Netzer (Nancy): New finds versus the beginning of the narrative on insular gospel books.
21206.
Roth (Uta): Early insular manuscripts: ornament and archaeology, with special reference to the dating of the Book of Durrow.
In Ireland and insular art (1987), pp. 23–29.
Argues it should be dated to shortly after AD 600.
18896.
Doyle (Denise): Threshold to the gospels: the carpet page in the Book of Kells.
In JAEMA 1 (2005), pp. 27–39.
18824.
Ralph (Karen): All aboard: iconographical interpretation problems in the Book of Ballymote miniature.
In Artefact 5 (2011), pp. 32–46.
18827.
McCloskey (Laura E.): Exploring meditatio and memoria in Ireland through the book of Durrow: manuscript illumination as the intersection of theological and artistic traditions.
In Eolas 11 (2018), pp. 32–59.
12738.
Henderson (Isabel): Understanding the figurative style and decorative programme of the Book of Deer.
In Studies on the Book of Deer (2008), pp. 32–66.
21208.
Haseloff (Günther): Insular animal styles with special reference to Irish art in the early medieval period.
In Ireland and insular art (1987), pp. 44–55.
7451.
Doyle (Denise): Imagery as exegesis in the Book of Kells.
In JAEMA 4 (2008), pp. 53–42.
21575.
Farr (Carol): Making manuscripts: the St. Matthew page in St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395.
In Islands in a global context (2017), pp. 55–64.
21209.
Henderson (Isabel): The Book of Kells and the snake-boss motif on Pictish cross-slabs and the Iona crosses.
In Ireland and insular art (1987), pp. 56–65.
19931.
Pulliam (Heather): Looking to Byzantium: light, color and cloth in the Book of Kells’ Virgin and Child page.
1613.
Nees (Lawrence): The colophon drawing in the Book of Mulling: a supposed Irish monastery plan and the tradition of terminal illustration in early Medieval manuscripts.
In CMCS 5 (Summer, 1983), pp. 67–91.
Suggests that the colophon drawing in MS TCD 60 (reproduction included) derives from Carolingian manuscript illumination rather than a plan of an Irish monastery. Incl. plts.
10863.
Carey (John): The hand and the angel: observations on the holy book in early Ireland and Northumbria.
In Temenos 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 76–96.
On the monastic scribal tradition and the significance of illumination; includes a discussion of three examples of animal ornament from Insular Gospel books (Durrow, Lindisfarne and Kells).
7235.
Meehan (Bernard): ‘A melody of curves across the page’: art and calligraphy in the Book of Armagh.
In IARY 14 (1998), pp. 90–101.
4765.
Krasnodębska-D’Aughton (Małgorzata): Decoration of the In principio initials in early Insular manuscripts: Christ as a visible image of the invisible God.
In WIm 18/2 (2002), pp. 105–122.
Studies the ornamentation of the opening initials to John’s Gospel in MSS TCD 57 (Book of Durrow), and 58 (Book of Kells), among others.
20945.
O’Reilly (Jennifer): The Book of Kells, folio 114r: a mystery revealed yet concealed.
In The age of migrating ideas [IIAC 2] (1993), pp. 106–114.
15236.
Ó Macháin (Pádraig): Notes on the decoration in the duanaire of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir.
In Éigse 39 (2016), pp. 111–127.
Includes plates.
20877.
Bioletti (Susie), Smith (Allyson): Shining a light on the pigments of early Irish manuscripts.
In An Insular odyssey (2017), pp. 114–127.
Reports on scientific analyses carried out on the pigmentation used in Usserianus Primus, Garland of Howth, Book of Dimma and Book of Mulling.
12119.
Nees (Lawrence): Ultán the scribe.
In ASE 22 (1993), pp. 127–146.
20878.
Mullarkey (Paul): Faint Steps: a note on the transmission of materials and techniques among goldsmith, illuminator and scribe.
In An Insular odyssey (2017), pp. 128–137.
18897.
Doyle (Denise): Ancient symbolism and theological geography: the image of the enthroned Christ in the Book of Kells.
In JAEMA 3 (2007), pp. 131–139.
18988.
Farr (Carol): History and mnemonic in Insular gospel book decoration.
In From the isles of the North (1995), pp. 137–145.
18989.
Edwards (Nancy): 11th-century Welsh illuminated manuscripts: the nature of the Irish connection.
In From the isles of the North (1995), pp. 147–155.
19928.
Tilghman (Benjamin C.): Patterns of meaning in insular manuscripts: folio 183r in the Book of Kells.
19935.
O’Reilly (Jennifer): St. John the Evangelist: between two worlds.
In Insular and Anglo-Saxon art and thought in the early medieval period (2011), pp. 189–218.
On the traditions of representation of the saint in the Book of Kells and the Book of Armagh, among others.
20882.
Thomas (Colleen M.): Monastic dress and the appearance of sanctity: the evangelists’ shoes.
In An Insular odyssey (2017), pp. 194–212.
Studies the iconography of footwear as depicted in the evangelist portraits of some early Irish manuscripts (Book of Dimma, Book of Mulling and Garland of Howth).
20883.
Endres (William): ‘Oh Lord, make haste to help me’: prayer and imagery atop canon table II in the Book of Kells.
In An Insular odyssey (2017), pp. 213–230.
10597.
Newman (Conor): St. Matthew’s cloak, Durrow fol. 21v.
In Above and beyond [Swan memorial essays] (2005), pp. 219–226.
20884.
O’Mahony (Felicity): God is in the detail: observations on the Book of Kells, folios 8r and 130r.
In An Insular odyssey (2017), pp. 231–248.
15098.
Meehan (Bernard): Looking the Devil in the eye: the figure of Satan in the Book of Kells folio 202v.
In Making and meaning in insular art (2007), pp. 268–274.
18820.
Ralph (Karen): A manuscript for a lord: reading the illumination in the Book of Ballymote.
In Book of Ballymote (2018), pp. 301–341.
14996.
Harbison (Peter): The golden age of Irish art: the medieval achievement, 600–1200.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1999. 368 pp. illus.
Chap. 5 (pp. 87-132): Manuscripts of the eighth and early ninth centuries.

Rev. by
Jennifer O’Reilly, in Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 427-432.