Dun Ailinne monument in 'Book of Kildare' project
An artist and calligrapher, Josephine has merged both skills to recreate her interpretation of the book, which has been missing for hundreds of years. It is said to have rivalled the Book of Kells and similar manuscripts from the scriptoria of the era.
We only know of it from the scribe Geraldus of Wales, who visited Ireland three times in the late 12th century and wrote in very descriptive terms afterwards in his own Topographia Hibernica, noting the belief that it was dictated by an angel.
His description inspired Kildare-based Josephine to produce a series of pages under the same name.
The postcards are available in bookshops and other outlets, and at todays Art and Crafts event in the Moat Theatre Naas, from 12 to 3pm. They make unique keepsakes to send to family and friends abroad.
Below is part of Geraldus's word of the lost book, the full description is here, from the County Kildare Archaeological Society website.
'Among all the miracles of Kildare nothing seems to me more miraculous than that wonderful book which they say was written at the dictation of an angel during the lifetime of the virgin. This book contains the concordance of the four gospels according to Saint Jerome, with almost as many drawings as pages, and all of them in marvellous colours.'
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