Canon Table With St Paul, in the 'Bury Gospels'

After the 9th-century Danish invasions and
10th-century reform of monasteries, the kind of decoration seen in
earlier manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels becomes rare.
Later Anglo-Saxon manuscripts have more solid-looking ornament and
figures which are distinctive but inspired by art from the
Continent. Although it is missing several of its original pages of
decoration, the Bury Gospels ex…