John Stracke’s Book Reviews

Celtic Alphabets

by Aidan Meehan

This is a new Meehan book (not in the Celtic Design series), which I haven't read yet. I have seen it, though, briefly. It's really nice; it’s got alphabets to copy in many different styles (humans, rabbits, dogs...). However, as always, he’s rather light on sources, which makes it hard to be sure he’s right. An illumination Laurel who was looking at it with me spotted at least one (the human P, I think it was) where the arrangement looked too modern; her guess was that, where he couldn’t find an example of the particular letter in the particular style he wanted, he made it up.