Approximately 250 years after the Lindisfarne Gospels book was written, a translation in Old English, Anglo-Saxon was added by Aldred, a priest at Chester-le-Street from 950 to 970.

It will take Eadfrith ten years to finish the Lindisfarne Gospels, on view at Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle until December 2 2022, but his masterpiece will be valued for generations. Later owners ...

The book known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, the oldest surviving English bible, ... One carpet page appears at the beginning of each gospel from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A section of the St Cuthbert Gospel, the 7th-century manuscript acquired by the British Library Credit: Photo: AFP/Getty Images The price of £9 million that the British Library paid for the ...

Perhaps the most important book ever produced in the North East is returning to the region to go on exhibition in Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery. The Lindisfarne Gospels is the oldest surviving ...

The book known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, the oldest surviving English bible, ... One carpet page appears at the beginning of each gospel from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; ...