Lichfield Gospels
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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
Script, Mark 2:23, p. 151
Cross carpet page
Lindisfarne Gospels
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The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Latin language produced probably around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, whic
Lichfield Gospels
…early part of the 8th century. The art historian Peter Lord dates the book at 730, placing it chronologically before the Book of Kells but after the Lindisfarne Gospels. Marginal entries indicate that the manuscript was in the possession of the church of St Teilo in Wales at some point in the 9th century and eventually…
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.
Evangelist portrait of Mark
"Chi Rho" monogram at the start of the Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Luke