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Tom Metcalfe

Book of Kells: A 1,200-year-old manuscript made by monks escaping the Vikings

A close-up of a colorful medieval manuscript.

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century

Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides

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