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He was born in southern New Mexico and grew up on the US–Mexico border in El Paso

"Of extraordinary value to scholars of Renaissance art

I’d particularly recommend it for student reading lists—I certainly wish I’d had it

The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma Influencer In recent yearsA new and definitive account of one of the most famous and mysterious manuscripts in the world. The Book of Kells is a mystery. It is distinct from all other copies of the gospels from the early Middle Ages, not only in the quality and amount of its decoration but also in the peculiarities of the ordering of its contents, the oddness of its apparatus, the appearance of the script, the interplay of text and ornament and the erratic forms of its Latin.