While we know the manuscript spent at least 650 years at Kells, we do not know where it started its life. Now a new book offers some clues as to its provenance.
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The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art.
A book that took ten years to make became the oldest surviving version of the Gospels in English.
Archaeologists believed there was too little left from the time of the saint who Christianised the Scottish Picts to prove the legend. Turns out they were wrong.
