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 priceless parchment pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels ... turn to a stunning full-page portrait of St John the Evangelist at the opening of his gospel. Over the last six weeks, 45,000 visitors ...

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 ...

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 ...

A row has erupted over the future of the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's most valuable religious treasures. Amid claims of "cultural snobbery" and political opportunism, Andy Burnham ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels has opened to the public in Durham. We asked schoolchildren - who had been some of the first to see the ancient manuscript on display - what they thought ...

An exhibition offering the opportunity to see the Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham has attracted nearly 100,000 visitors during its three-month stay. The Durham University exhibition gave people a ...