Book of Kells Part 2 Documentary

Around the year 750, Irish monks laboring in isolation on a tiny island of Iona off Scotland s west coast began work on a book that would outlast empires, a book that many say may be the greatest illustrated version of the Gospels ever made. Well, it wasn t quite a book really. It was a codexthe first step up from a scroll and toward a modern bound and printed book. Codex salesmen were quick to tout the advantages: you can open a codex to any page (try that with a scroll), you can write on both sides o