Timothy Graham walks through the history, art, and symbolism of the Book of Kells, the illuminated gospel manuscript long considered the finest surviving work of Irish art from the Middle Ages, and argues for how its makers earned the description "the work of angels." The lecture is illustrated with close views of the manuscript's pages, tracing the monastic community that produced it and the techniques behind its pigments and lettering. Graham points out how the book fuses Christian subject matter, saints, evangelists, biblical scenes, with Celtic ornament: interlace, spirals, and knotwork that have no source in Mediterranean Christian art. He places the manuscript in the context of Insular monastic scriptoria and explains why its combination of scale, decoration, and survival sets it apart from other gospel books of the period. Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of New Mexico, the talk is aimed at a general audience rather than specialists, moving page by page rather than through abstract art history.