Manuscript Curiosities¶
The Book of Kells and its Madonna and Child
Inaugurating a new series of posts: The Social Media Codicologists. You might not know it, but out there, in the social media sphere, there are hundreds of people like Sexy Codicology that share fantastic images of medieval manuscripts, along with great and interesting information. We want to highlight some of the posts we come across on our Tumblr. The first post of this series is a miniature shared by buonfresco:
Madonna and Child from the Book of Kells, Folio 7v, Late 8th or early 9th century, Scotland