Handpainted Celtic Designs Based on The Book of Kells. Book of Kells, is said to be the Western world's most beautiful illuminated manuscript. Hand painted and illuminated by monks around the year 800 A.D. It is thought to have begun on the island of Iona, between Scotland and Ireland, and is named after the Abbey of Kells, Ireland, where it was from at least the 9th century to 1541. But mystery surrounds its true origins. Since 1661 the Book of Kells has been kept in the Library of Trinity College in Dublin
Similar art can be found in the Lindisfarne Gospels. The Lindisfarne Gospels are one of the treasures of the Christian Church in Northumbria. They were produced in the 7th century "Golden Age of Northumbria". This was when the Venerable Bede wrote his "Ecclesiastical History" and when the Celtic Saints Aidan and Cuthbert brought their missionary work for the conversion of the North. The Lindisfarne Gospels are currently in the care of the British Library, in London,