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The opening of St Mathew's Gospel in the Lindisfarne Gospels

This beautifully decorated copy of the four Gospels was made by a single artist-scribe (perhaps Bishop Eadfrith of Lindisfarne), probably working in the monastery of Lindisfarne around AD 715-720. A masterpiece of Insular culture (of the islands of Britain and Ireland), it skilfully blends artistic, calligraphic and textual components drawn from Celtic, Germanic and Mediterranean cultures. In the …

  • The British Library (opens in new window)
  • Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Evangeliary
  • evangeliaries
  • codex-style
  • Illuminated manuscript
  • illuminated manuscripts
  • The British Library (opens in new window)
  • Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Evangeliary
  • evangeliaries
  • codex-style
  • Illuminated manuscript
  • illuminated manuscripts
  • Europeana 280
  • http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
  • false
  • 715/720
  • http://sws.geonames.org/6944331/
  • UK_280_001
  • Latin
  • Old English
  • http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80935
  • United Kingdom
  • 2063624_EU_280_UK
  • 2019-09-10T19:17:51.718Z
  • 2019-09-10T19:17:51.718Z