Eadfrith became Bishop of Lindisfarne in around 698 and died in 721. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic church, yet the gospels are his greatest legacy. Matthew Evangelist portrait ...

The St John Evangelist Portrait. 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 ...

VISITORS flocked to see “a masterpiece of Northumbrian pictorial art” after the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels ... The portrait is the left hand page. While Matthew, Mark and Luke are ...

The precious pages of the 1,300-year-old Lindisfarne Gospels have been turned ... the first of only two pages to be displayed. A portrait of St John the Evangelist will now be on show for the ...

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island ... s task is to copy the Latin text of all four Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – and illustrate them ...

Close examination has shown that this awe-inspiring work of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ script and illustrations was undertaken by one artist-scribe, whom the 10th century monk Aldred identified as ...

What did we have in the Saturday edition? Four pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the main pages, plus another 16 pages in the Memories supplement but the local/regional news was virtually non ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels has been on display there since the beginning of July. Today is the last chance to see the Lindisfarne Gospels at Durham Cathedral. The book has been on display there since ...

The book was produced in the 8th century and is the oldest readable English translation of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, said: "The Lindisfarne Gospels has long ...

When they were written, the Lindisfarne Gospels were a statement of a new Englishness. With their lavishly illuminated manuscript of Latin and Anglo-Saxon letters, they celebrated England's Celtic ...

Close examination has shown that this awe-inspiring work of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ script and illustrations was undertaken by one artist-scribe, whom the 10th century monk Aldred identified as ...