Lindisfarne Gospels Carpet Pages

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Lindisfarne gospels carpet pages.

Carpet page posted on december 14 2015 by mrsbowman1 cross and carpet page for st. Jerome and pope damasus i. An exhibition held at the british library 16th may to 28th september 2003. The carpet pages of the lindisfarne gospels.

This is the currently selected item. The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st. The bayeux tapestry seven ages of britain bbc one. Matthew folio 26 verso of the lindisfarne gospels from northumbria england c.

They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms typically placed at the beginning of each of the four gospels in gospel books. The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew. Lindisfarne gospels john cross carpet page f 210v british library the book is a spectacular example of insular or hiberno saxon art works produced in the british isles between 500 900 c e a time of devastating invasions and political upheavals. There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out.