‘…they finally alighted upon two books as their purest exemplars: the Codex #Amiatinus and the #LindisfarneGospels.’ 2/2
Michelle P. Brown, ‘Bede & the Theory of Everything’ (2023), p. 194.
She argues that #Bede was involved in both these books: Amiatinus, from Jarrow, & Gospels from Lindisfarne.
British Museum digitized library
The British Museum once again has a portion of its “Digitised Manuscripts” back online after a cyber attack in late 2023. You’ll find the Moutier-Grandval Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, and the Lindisfarne Gospels, among other treasures. (link in comments) #LindisfarneGospels #BritishMuseum bit.ly/417nQzL
Animated gif with pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels featuring: Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. Evangelist portrait of Mark "Chi-Rho" monogram at the start of the Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Luke monogram Matthew the Evangelist Carpet page, F26v
📕💡 The Lindisfarne Gospels
is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London.
#LindisfarneGospels #illuminated
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