St Augustine Gospels
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The St Augustine Gospels is an illuminated Gospel Book which dates from the 6th century and has been in the Parker Library in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge since 1575. It was made in Italy and has
The evangelist portrait of Luke under the inscription Iura sacerdotii Lucas tenet ore iuuenci from Carmen paschale by Coelius Sedulius. Gospels of Saint Augustine, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Ms. 286, fol. 129v
The left-hand scenes on the portrait of Luke
Right-hand scenes
Folio 125r contains 12 scenes from the Passion
Augustine of Canterbury
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Augustine of Canterbury was a Christian monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He was the prior of a Benedictine monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory I chose him in 595 to
St Augustine Gospels
…E VI, and another in the Library of Canterbury Cathedral. The manuscript is traditionally, and plausibly, considered to be either a volume brought by St Augustine of Canterbury to England with the Gregorian mission in 597, or one of a number of books recorded as being sent to him in 601 by Pope Gregory the Great – like other…
Portrait labelled "AUGUSTINUS" from the mid-8th-century Saint Petersburg Bede, though perhaps intended as Gregory the Great.
Æthelberht of Kent imagined in a statue at Canterbury Cathedral
Augustine's gravesite at Canterbury