Ornamental Pages (7th century) — From the Gospels of Durrow, Trinity College Dublin
Featured on PDR in the collection John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (1868)
John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893) was a bona fide polymath. An archaeologist, entomologist, editor, artist, and art historian, he was a regular contributor to the Gardner’s Chronicle, a founder of the Entomological Society of London, and the author of books about everything from sessile-eyed crustaceans to the early sculptured stones of Wales.