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 …
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Evangeliary
- evangeliaries
- codex-style
- Illuminated manuscript
- illuminated manuscripts
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Evangeliary
- evangeliaries
- codex-style
- Illuminated manuscript
- illuminated manuscripts
- 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
- 2019-09-10T19:17:51.718Z
- 2019-09-10T19:17:51.718Z