Lindisfarne Gospels (about 680-720)
Lindisfarne Gospels
British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV
Copyright © The British Library Board
A high-quality version of this image can be purchased from British Library Images Online. For more information email imagesonline@bl.uk
The Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest art treasures, was probably made on Holy Island in Northumbria (North-East England), in the late seventh or early eighth century. The artist-illuminator was called Eadfrith. Although written in Latin, the manuscript contains the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English, added between the lines around 970.
