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Lindisfarne Gospels (about 680-720)
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Lindisfarne Gospels
British Library Cotton MS Nero
D.IV
Copyright © The British Library Board
The Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's
greatest art treasures, was probably made on Holy Island in Northumbria
(North-East England), in the late seventh or early eighth century.
The artist-illuminator was called Eadfrith. Although written in
Latin, the manuscript contains the oldest surviving translation
of the Gospels into English, added between the lines around 970.
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