The Book of Kells manuscript is written on vellum — usually prepared by scraping calf skin — and spans 680 pages that experts think were written by at least three different monks. Some of the ...

The 680-page manuscript is intricately decorated in a style known as “insular majuscule” script. The original copy was hand-written and painted on vellum, a calf-skin that has been tanned to p ...

Interestingly enough, both of these theories have been proven wrong by science. Radiocarbon dating of the manuscript’s vellum and biochemical analysis of the ink used in the book show that it dates ...