The modern period
Kells book remained Kellse to 1654 this year cavalry of Oliver Cromwell is located in the church and the city government sent a book for her safety in Dublin. The book was presented to Trinity College in Dublin in 1661 by Henry Jones, the local bishop. With the exception of brief periods of exhibitions, Kellskaya book is in the library of the college from the XVII century to the present.
In the XVI century, Gerald Plankettom books were in the fields indicated Roman numerals the number of heads of the Gospels, in accordance with the division into chapters proposed in the XIII century, Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Lengtonom. In 1621 pages of the book were numbered Bishop James Asherov. In 1849, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was asked to leave their signatures in the book. They have left their signatures on the modern front book. This page was deleted in 1953 when the restoration of the book.
In the past centuries, the book repeatedly back and restored. During the binding in the XVIII century, the pages are cut off, to bring them to one format, with some fragments of the images were lost. The book has been intertwined in the 1895 g, but the cover has been corrupted quickly. Since the late 1920-ies. A few pages are stored separately. In 1953 the book was intertwined Roger Powell in four volumes.
In 2000, the volume containing the Gospel of Mark, visited the exhibition of personal manuscripts in Canberra, Australia. It was the fourth foreign exhibitions Kellskoy book. Unfortunately, during the flight that was «a slight destruction of the pigment» due to vibration aviamotorov during the long flight.