The place of origin of the Book of Kells (800) have attracted a great deal of scholarly controversy. The majority academic opinion now tends to attribute it to the scriptorium of Iona (Í Cholm Cille). A monastery founded around 561 by Saint Colum Cille on Iona, an island off Mull in western Scotland, became the principal house of a large monastic confederation. (Trinity College Dublin, MS 58: 7v)
country: Éire
year: 1972
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