Lindisfarne Gospels

The Book of Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Gospels is also a fully preserved Gospel Book from the late 7th or early 8th century.

It was created before 721 at Lindisfarne monastery, in honor of God and St. Cuthbert. Writer and illustrator was Eadfrith, who was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 721 698 to his death. Since the work shows traces of incompleteness, it is argued that the development process itself must have extends to the year of death 721 of its creator, but is also an end of the use of the Episcopal Ordination 698 into consideration. The work consists of 259 folia on vellum in a size of 34 x 24.5 cm. It offers the complexity and accuracy of its Flechtbandornamentik that foreshadow technical drawings, his measured at the southern taste of his time, shocking, dramatic color and last but not least under the influence of late antique and contemporary Mediterranean art animal (sometimes also people ) representations that are committed despite marked linearity of a realistic conception and thereby distinctly different from the highly abstract style of Irish manuscripts.

Between the lines of the Latin original text Old English translation one was inserted later.

The facsimile Verlag Luzern, the Book of Lindisfarne brought out in 2003 as a facsimile.