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Interesting facts on Illuminated
Manuscripts
Answers to
the questions you didn't even know to ask. For example, did you know
that The Book of Kells was written
and decorated not by one hand, but several? Scholars have detected the work of at least
three different artists, who may or may not have been the calligraphers as well. Subtle
variation in the lettering reveals something of the personality of each individual scribe.
One seems to have preferred rounded letterforms written in a dignified hand, while another
left evidence of his extroverted nature in his use of brilliant red ink and flamboyant pen
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