The Making of the Book
The number of calves that were used to make the Book of Kells.
What is 150?
The fish symbolizes this in the Book of Kells.
What is Christ?
This is the material where the red colour in the Book of Kells came from.
The figure in black pictured in the Temptation of Christ page.
Who is the devil?
This is the current location of the Book of Kells.
What is Trinity College.
The number of years that it took to create the Book of Kells.
What is 30 years?
This animal appearing in the Book of Kells represents the apostle Mark.
What is the Lion?
This is the material where the white colour from the Book of Kells originated.
What is gypsum?
This illuminator is responsible for the Chi-Rho page as well as the introductory page of the Gospels and the eight-circles cross page.
Who is the Goldsmith?
The name of the Island off the coast of Scotland where the Book of Kells is said to have originated
What is Iona?
The minimum number of writers identified in the book of Kells
What is 4?
This animal represents immortality in the Book of Kells.
This is the plant in which the pink and purple colours from the book of Kells were gathered from.
What is lichen?
This illuminator is responsible for the portrait pages of Matthew, John, and Christ.
Who is the Portraitist?
This was the event that facilitated the books move to Dublin, Ireland.
What is a Viking raid?
The writing tool used in the Book of Kells.
What is a goose or raven quill?
This insect represents the resurrection of Christ in the Book of Kells?
What is the moth?
This is the plant from which the ink for the Book of Kells was gathered.
What is oak-galls or berries?
This illuminator is responsible for The Virgin and The Child, The Arrest of Christ, and The Temptation of Christ.
Who is the Illustrator?
This was the presumed reason the Book of Kells was stolen from Kells.
What is it's cover?
This is another name for the calf skin used to make the book.
What is Vellum?
This animal in the Book of Kells represents the apostle John.
What is the eagle?
The blue pigment in the Book of Kells has recently been identified as originating from this.
What is woad?
This famous page represents the birth of Christ and the birth of the Earth.
What is the Chi Rho page?
The book of Kells was located in this type of body of water after it was stolen.
What is a bog?