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The Book of Kells

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« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2010, 01:28:00 pm »

as a student at the University of Paris, where it is probable he had become acquainted with a more modern type of illuminated miniatures, it seems difficult to believe that he could have been alluding in the last quoted passage to the more or less crude figure representations of the Saviour contained in the Book of Kells. Besides, there are no "forms of the Evangelists" to be found in the Manuscript as it exists to-day that have either six or four wings; † nor, indeed, is there any convincing reason suggested why the
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