by Marion Ueckermann
One of the most fascinating places I visited when we lived in Ireland was the library at Trinity College in Dublin. It is the largest research library in Ireland, containing around 5 million printed volumes and a vast number of manuscripts, maps and music.
The most famous book in this amazing library is located in the Old Library. The Book of Kells, a 9th-century gospel manuscript celebrated for its lavish decoration and called the ‘most beautiful book in the world’, has worldwide fame. Containing the four Gospels in Latin based on a Vulgate text, this manuscript is written on vellum in a script known as “insular majuscule”. Thousands of rare and very early volumes have also found their home in the Old Library.
Read more at the following link:
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/books-books-everywhere.html
http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/books-books-everywhere.html
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