The Book of Kells or Book of Columba, Trinity College Library, Dublin. Celtic Gospel in Latin. Symbols of the four Evangelists, illuminated lacertine letters spelling Nativitus, alphabet of initial and ordinary letters. Chromolithograph after an illustration by John Obadiah Westwood from his own Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria, being a series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, William Smith, London, 1843.

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