Summary: Between the seventh and twelfth centuries, a distinctive form of script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts produced in the milieu of the Irish church. Although associated principally with Britain and Ireland, Ireland’s reputation for learning and the missionary activity associated with Irish foundations mean that today Insular texts are found in library collections across the Continent and beyond. Arising from recent research at TCD, and marking the retirement of its eminent scholar of Insular manuscripts, Dr Bernard Meehan, this book examines Irish manuscript culture from a broad range of perspectives.

Contents: The colophon drawing in the Book of Mulling, Dominique Barbet-Massin ; Pigment analysis in Insular manuscripts, Susie Bioletti ; Exhibiting the Lindisfarne Gospels, Claire Breay ; Medieval approaches to establishing origin and provenance for Insular copies of scripture, Michelle Brown ; How many cows does it take to make the Book of Kells?, Denis Casey ; Bern Burgerbibliothek, Codex 363, David Dumville ; Prayer and the imagery atop canon table II in the Book of Kells, William Endres ; Contexts of the Irish fragments, St Gall Codex 1395, Carol Farr ; Unravelling the strands of the Garland of Howth, Rachel Moss ; Echternach fragments, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín ; Minor decoration in the Book of Kells, Felicity O'Mahony ; Bindings of the Books of Dimma and Mulling, Bernard Meehan & John Gillis ; Book shrines, Paul Mullarkey ; Unstudied fragments of a Latin gospel book in Insular half-uncial, Francis Newton & Robert Babcock ; Continuities in Insular intitials, Timothy O'Neill ; Colour and cognition in the Books of Durrow and Lindisfarne, Heather Pulliam ; Usserianus Primus and the movements of scripts, Mark Stansbury ; Insular evangelists' shoes, Colleen Thomas.

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