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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 …
Creator
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Subject
- Evangeliary
- evangeliaries
- codex-style
Type of item
- Illuminated manuscript
- illuminated manuscripts
Creator
- Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne
Subject
- Evangeliary
- evangeliaries
- codex-style
Type of item
- Illuminated manuscript
- illuminated manuscripts
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- 715/720
- 0715/0720
Current location
- http://sws.geonames.org/6944331/
Identifier
- UK_280_001
Language
- Latin
- Old English
Relations
- http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80935
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-10T19:17:51.718Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-09-10T19:17:51.718Z