Binding the Lindisfarne Gospels Aldred's inscription, added in the 10th century, recorded that the Lindisfarne Gospels were bound by Ethelwald and the cover decorated with an impressed design.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are on display in the North East for the first time since 2013, and the first time in Newcastle since 2000.

As well as a masterpiece of Northumbrian art, the Lindisfarne Gospels is an invaluable record of early medieval history, preserving the words spoken by everyday people in the north of England over ...

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.

And as the gospels produced by Eadfrith, a monk at Lindisfarne who became bishop in c. 698 until his death in c. 722, go on show at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle, New Generation Thinker Jake ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels are “a masterpiece of early medieval European book painting”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Created in the early 700s by Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne island in ...

She said there was evidence he had invented lead pencils - 300 years before they were widely used - in making the Lindisfarne gospels. "He also invented the lightbox," she said. "He used the same ...

To prove that Lindisfarne was a significant centre for illuminated-manuscript book production, the archaeologists would have to find rough drafts of relevant illuminated motifs, potentially scratched ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels are on display in the North East for the first time since 2013, and the first time in Newcastle since 2000. The manuscript, which was produced on Holy Island in ...

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”, encrusted ...

The story of the Lindisfarne Gospels is intimately connected to life in the north east of England. It speaks to the migration of communities, the passing on of artistic traditions and the preservation ...