CHAPTER VI. Page 80 to 97.

THE CELTIC SCHOOL OF MANUSCRIPTS.

The Irish Church; Celtic goldsmiths; technical processes of the metal-workers copied by illuminators of manuscripts; the _Book of Kells_, its perfect workmanship and microscopic illuminations; copies of metal spiral patterns; the "trumpet pattern;" Moslem influence; absence of gold in the Irish manuscripts; the _Book of Durrow_; the monks of Iona; the Celtic missionaries to Northumbria; the _Gospels_ of St Cuthbert; the Viking pirates; the adventures of St Cuthbert's _Gospels_; the Anglo-Celtic school; improved drawing and use of gold; Italian influence; the early _Gospels_ in the Corpus library; the _Gospels_ of MacDurnan; the _Book of Deer_; the _Gospels_ of St Chad; the Celtic school on the Continent; the _Psalter_ of St Augustine; Scandinavian art; the _golden Gospels_ of Stockholm and its adventures; the struggle between the Celtic and the Roman Church; the Synod of Whitby; the Roman victory, and the growth of Italian influence; the school of Baeda at Durham.