Metalworkers on this island produced elaborate “book shrines” called cumdachs that were used as reliquary boxes to hold manuscripts. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this island whose metalworkers made the Cross of Cong and the Ardagh (“ARR-da”) Chalice. A famed illustrated manuscript of the Gospels is named for this island’s town of Kells.
ANSWER: Ireland [or Éire; or Airlann]
[10m] The goldsmith Billfrith made the now-lost elaborate metal casing for this 8th-century illuminated manuscript. This collection of gospels is named for an island off the coast of Northumberland.
ANSWER: Lindisfarne Gospels
[10h] Celtic metalworkers pioneered a “pseudo-penannular” style of these objects, such as ones named for Hunterston and Tara. A bone in the human body takes its name from the Roman term for these clothing objects.
ANSWER: brooches (“broaches”) [or clasps; prompt on fibulae or fibulas; prompt on clamps or pins or clips or fasteners]
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