REPLICAS of the Lindisfarne Gospels are to go on show in the North-East, the home region of the original manuscript, later this month. Expensively produced facsimile copies of the gospels will be ...

A REPLICA of the Lindisfarne Gospels goes on permanent display at Durham Cathedral, the former home of the original manuscript, next month.

A special open-air act of worship has been organised to celebrate the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East. The medieval manuscript is to go on display at Durham University’s ...

The Gospels are thought to have been made around 715-720 when Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne then at the peak of his powers, began working on sheets of vellum made from cowhide.

The Lindisfarne Gospels contain the gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerning the life of Jesus. The book was produced for ceremonial use, as a representation of ...

In central London, a stone's throw from St. Pancras rail station, is one of the world's largest libraries, container of national treasures including the Lindisfarne Gospels, begun about the year 700.

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the English coast in Northumbria, a monk by the name of Eadfr Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels are “a masterpiece of early medieval European book painting”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Created in the early 700s by Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne island in ...

A special open-air act of worship has been organised to celebrate the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East. The medieval manuscript is to go on display at Durham University’s ...

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 Lindisfarne Gospels is formed of more than 250 vellum pages and measures just over 36cm in height, about the size of a modern A3 sheet. The book’s original “treasure binding”, ...