Insular script is a medieval script system originating in Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Irish Christianity. Irish missionaries took the script to contine
The beginning of the Gospel of Mark from the Book of Durrow
St Chad Gospels: Et factum est iter[um cum sabbatis ambula] / ret ihs [Ihesus] per sata (Mark 2:23, p. 151) "And it came to pass, that Jesus went through the corn fields on the sabbath day".
The Lichfield Gospels is an 8th-century Insular Gospel Book housed in Lichfield Cathedral. There are 236 surviving pages, eight of which are illuminated. Another four contain framed text. The pages me
Evangelist portrait of Saint Luke
Evangelist portrait of Saint Mark