Trinity College and Bank of Ireland, Dublin. Print shows Trinity College (in background) and Statue of King William III. Trinity College Dubli n ( TCD) is Ireland’s oldest university, founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. Provost Edward Gwynn seated left Lord Birkenhead seated right William T Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council (prime minister), standing centre.
Provost’s office at Trinity College, Dublin, 1927. Note: The kind people over at Trinity College Library have made the whole book available to see on their website.Trinity College Dublin: A Comprehensive Overview! Making do with a pair of unsightly hooves for feet, the horrors he witnessed that night forever carved in his wide-open eyeballs, and the kinda-cool but not really impressive power of 5 cms high levitation. Seannie was cursed to roam the Land forever in an eternal landing phase, trying to find new converts and failing time and time again by reason of his unnatural demeanor. The result was Seannie Hoof-Toes, a missionary monk who was never the same after accepting some suspicious-looking mushrooms from the Druids he was trying to convert. I can totally see some cocky new scribe in the Monastery looking at the page, noticing the blank space on the left and thinking “Yeah I know how I can improve this page. Matthew’s Gospel (also known as folio 29), one the most elaborate and beautifully performed pages, making his existence and placing even more puzzling.Īccording to experts, it was indeed probably added at a later time. He makes his clearly uncalled-for appearance in the opening words of St. This is what happened, I believe, when old Seannie was brought to life by some less-than mature artist’s hand. I am absolutely in love with the idea of a budding artist being given a chance to shine and screwing it up completely. I like to imagine an innocent, young scribe apprentice probably called Brother Jimmy that after much persuading his Master gets a spot on the Book but ends up screwing it up and winter was coming so no time to fix it let’s print it people. As an artist, I find such lower-quality illustrations quite endearing. The fact that less than expert handwork can be spotted throughout the book also strengthens the theory that it might be from a much earlier time (and took way longer to make) than one would expect. I mean I can’t be the only one that sees an old, God-fearing woman within that rectangle, right?
This solemn figure is supposed to represent Christ as a Judge in the Last Judgement scene, and yes, I’m very well aware that besmirching the figure of our Savior as a mean irish Ol’ Biddy is not necessarily earning me any spots in Heaven. ‘The Book of Kells’ by Edward Sullivan, Įddie said it, no me. It is now certain that some at least of the unfinished ornaments have been continued by an inferior hand” “As previously mentioned, the Manuscript is in a good many of its decorative portions unfinished. Or maybe it was just the lads from the village messing with the monks after a night of booze and merryment.īut folio 202v still holds one more unexpected being lurking within.
Think about that: Sometime around the time the book was made, some fearsome individual made it his objective to take a knife, get close enough to the well-guarded priceless manuscript without arising suspicion, and stab this figure of damnation in an attempt to invoke (or pacify?) who knows what mystical forces. The date of this intervention in the life of the Book of Kells is impossible to determine with accuracy, though it may be supposed to have occurred in the middle ages.” The page is overflowing with religious symbols, metaphors and meaning, but the BEST thing about this particular page, besides this very important visitation from Hell, is the fact that right in the area of Satan’s neck and upper body, the image has been disfigured by around 20 small STAB marks.Īccording to Bernard Meehan from Trinity College: “This controlled attack, not visible to the naked eye at first glance, seems to have been undertaken at a time when the book was bound, with the knife going through the vellum to previous leaves. In this specific case, the time where Old Nick tried to talk J-Sooz into jumping down from the temple’s roof in Jerusalem to prove his angels would save him. We find his mysterious representation (unlike any other figure in the whole book) on folio 202v, a page that depicts one of Christ’s Temptations. And lo and behold, none other than Lucifer himself shows up for the task. Because the universe will always tend to balance itself, the Book that has the power to turn Darkness into Light had to have some point of extreme Darkness lurking somewhere in its pages.
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