Brown, Michelle P. "Echoes: The Book of Kells and Southern English Manuscript Production." In "The Book of Kells": Proceedings of a Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 6-9 September 1992, pp. 333-43. Hants, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1994.

Investigates the relationship between the Book of Kells and the southern English Tiberius group of manuscripts, and considers the implications of their parallels and similarities in discussing the origin of the Book of Kells.

Farr, Carol A. "Textual Structure, Decoration, and Interpretive Images in the Book of Kells." In "The Book of Kells": Proceedings of a Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 6-9 September 1992, pp. 437-49. Hants, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1994.

Focuses on the symbolic, spiritual, and political significance of two full-page illustrations in the Book of Kells: the Temptation of Christ and the Arrest of Christ.

Friend, Jr., A. M. "The Canon Tables in the Book of Kells." In Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter, Volume II, edited by Wilhelm R. W. Koehler, pp. 611-66. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939.

Compares and contrasts the Kells and Lindisfarne manuscripts and examines several Canon Tables and Beast Tables in an attempt "to prove that the Book of Kells owes many of its peculiarities to the fact that it is, indeed, based on a lost gospel manuscript of Continental origin which had already left its imprint on the manuscripts of one of the schools of the Carolingian Renaissance."

Gwynn, Aubrey. "Some Notes on the History of the Book of Kells." Irish Historical Studies IX, No. 34 (September, 1954): 131-61.

Makes conclusions based on new evidence concerning the history of ownership of the Book of Kells.

Henderson, George. From Durrow to Kells. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987, 224p.

Profusely illustrated volume includes chapters on the Book of Durrow and Lindisfarne Gospels, among many others, as well as an examination of the design and imagery of the Book of Kells.

Henderson, Isabel. "The Book of Kells and the Snake-Boss Motif on Pictish Cross-Slabs and the Iona Crosses." In Ireland and Insular Art A.D. 500-1200, 56-65. Edited by Michael Ryan. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1987.

Examines the use of snake ornaments in the Book of Kells and compares it to snake imagery displayed in sculptures and metalwork.

Herbert, Máire. "The Monastery of Kells up to the Mid Twelfth Century: Charter and Annal Evidence." In Iona, Kells, and Derry: The History and Hagiography of the Monastic Familia of Columba, 98-108. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Examines monastery written records to gain information on the community of Kells.

Mac Lean, Douglas. "The Keills Cross in Knapdale, the Iona School, and the Book of Kells." In Early Medieval Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, edited by John Higgit, pp. 175-97. London: BAR, 1986.

Explores some common motifs found in early medieval sculpture and the Book of Kells.

Powell, R. "The Book of Kells. The Book of Durrow. Comments on the Vellum, the Make-up, and Other Aspects." Scriptorium X (1956): 3-21.

Very detailed description of each of the leaves of the manuscript of the Book of Kells, made possible when it was repaired and rebound in 1953.

Simms, George Otto. Exploring the "Book of Kells." Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 1988, 71p.

Text for students provides overview of the Book of Kells including who produced it, why, and how; its contents; and its present home at Trinity College.

Werner, Martin. "The Madonna and Child Miniature in the Book of Kells: Part I." The Art Bulletin LIV, No. 1 (March, 1972): 1-23.

Investigation of "the earliest extant Madonna and Child illustration" which features "an exhaustive examination of typology and setting and the intimate relation between the two."

——. "The Madonna and Child Miniature in the Book of Kells: Part II." The Art Bulletin LIV, No. 2 (June, 1972): 129-39.

Concludes that "the Madonna and Christ Majesty pages originate in a single iconographic demonstration arranged as a set of illustrations of Coptic creation."