Index to the Most Famous Pages of the Book of Kells:

Here is an index for going quickly to the best known pages of the Book of Kells:

Folio 7v: Virgin and Child with angels
 

 
Folio 27v: Gospel of Matthew: Symbols of the four Evangelists

Folio 28v: Portrait of Matthew

 

 

Folio 32v: Portrait of Christ (the Doubtful Portrait)

   

 

Folio 33r: Carpet page (double-armed cross with eight roundels set in a frame)

Folio 34r: 1.18 Christi autem generatio, the conception: the Chi Rho page

Folio 40v: Beatitudes from the Gospel of Matthew

Folio 114r: 26.30 Et ymno dicto exierunt in montem oliueti (‘And a hymn being said, they went out unto Mount Olivet’): Jesus on the Mount of Olives

Folio 124r: 27.38 Tunc crucifixerant xpi cum eo du/os latrones (‘Then were crucified with him two thieves’)

Folio 129v: Gospel of Mark: Symbols of the four Evangelists

Folio 130r: Mark I.I: Init/ium euangel/lii Jesu/Christi (‘The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ’)

Folio 183r: 15.25: Erat / autem / hora tercia (‘And it was the third hour’): the Crucifixion.

Folio 188r: Gospel of Luke: Luke I.I Quoniam (’Foramuch as’)

 
Folios 200r-202r: 3.22-38 Genealogy of Jesus
   

Folios 202r: Concludes Genealogy of Jesus with an infinity/eternity tailpiece

Folio 202v: Temptation of Jesus in the temple featuring the devil

Folio 203r: 4.1: Iesus / autem / plenus / spiritus / sancto (‘And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost’)

Folio 285r:  Gospel of Luke,Entombment of the body of Jesus - Ouroboros

Folio 290v: Gospel of John,Symbols of the four Evangelists

Folio 291v: Gospel of John, Portrait of John and someone standing behind!

Folio 292r: I.I: In p/rinvi/pio erat uer/bum [et] uer[b]um (‘In the beginning was the Word, and in the Word [was with God]’)

Proceed to the next Kells post:  Artists of the Book of Kells