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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The evangelist who composed the gospel of Matthew was probably a Jewish Christian, possibly a scribe. The historical evidence suggests that he wrote between 80 and 90 CE and addressed his work to ...

THE Lindisfarne Gospels, the most spectacular surviving manuscript from Anglo-Saxon England, will go on display in the North-East on loan from the British Library in 2022, it has been revealed.

The Lindisfarne Gospels. Picture: British Library Board Cllr Simon Henig, co-chairman NECP, said: “The Lindisfarne Gospels is many things to many people but, first and foremost it is a book ...

British Library bosses who are keeping the Lindisfarne Gospels in London have been ordered to return another ancient script to Italy. British Library bosses who are keeping the Lindisfarne Gospels ...