The Lindisfarne Gospels’ scribe, Eadfrith, would have copied his text from an existing book. This was probably one of the many books brought back from Rome by Benedict Biscop.

Encrusted with jewels The Lindisfarne Gospels is formed of more than 250 vellum pages and measures just over 36cm in height, about the size of a modern A3 sheet. The book’s original “treasure binding” ...

The facing page shows trial designs for the Gospels’ famous intricately patterned carpet pages and observers can see where the green verdigris pigment has begun to burn through from the next page.

"The copying and decoration of the Lindisfarne Gospels represent an outstanding artistic achievement. The book includes five highly elaborate full-page carpet pages, so-called because of their ...

The book known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, the oldest surviving English bible, has left its native North East again after a brief, but successful visit home.

The Lindisfarne Gospels is opened at a cross-carpet page - so called because these pages in the book are said to look like oriental rugs; their decorations created at a time that prayer mats were ...

Six weeks after the Lindisfarne Gospels went on display at Durham University's Palace Green Library, visitors to the exhibition can now see a different page of the precious book, the St John ...

Birds and animals in the Lindisfarne Gospels The Lindisfarne Gospels book is unusual for its large quantity of bird illustrations, and their naturalistic detail.

VISITORS flocked to see “a masterpiece of Northumbrian pictorial art” after the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels were turned for the only time during their stay in the North-East today ...

One of the manuscript’s five carpet pages. British Library Encrusted with jewels The Lindisfarne Gospels is formed of more than 250 vellum pages and measures just over 36cm in height, about the ...