Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- codex
- Part of
- Cotton library
- Has part
- canonical Gospels
- Official name
- An Anglo-Saxon gospel-book (‘The Lindisfarne Gospels’)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Movement
- Insular art
- Material used
- parchment
- Creator
- Eadfrith of Lindisfarne
- Collection
- British Library
- Location
- England
- Image
- LindisfarneFol27rIncipitMatt.jpg
- Height
- 365
- Width
- 275
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- Commons category
- Lindisfarne Gospels (710-721) - BL Cotton MS Nero D IV
- described at URL
- www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/lindisfarne.html
- inventory number
- Cotton Ms. Nero D IV.
- inception
- 0700-01-01
- work available at URL
- bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Nero_D_IV
- language of work or name
- Old English
- title
- Lindisfarne Gospels
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Encyclopedic overview
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.
The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Latin language produced probably around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. The manuscript is considered one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements.
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