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	Showcases :: Lindisfarne Gospels
		It was made and used at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, a major religious community that housed the shrine of St Cuthbert, who died in 687.
		However, the Lindisfarne Gospels is the work of one remarkably gifted artist who produced both words and images, giving the manuscript a particularly coherent sense of design.
		The Lindisfarne Gospels, and others like it, helped define the growing sense of ‘Englishness’ - a spirit of national identity that was consolidated by the Venerable Bede, the historian monk, in his ‘History of the English Church and People’, completed in 731.
	www.bl.uk /onlinegallery/themes/euromanuscripts/lindisfarne.html (1106 words)

	Lindisfarne Gospels - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The Lindisfarne Gospels (about 698-721) are illuminated books produced by monks on an island off the coast of Northumberland, England.
		The gospels are noted for their pages decorated with complex interlacing designs intertwined with fantastic creatures.
		The Lindisfarne Gospels are now part of the collection of the British Library, London.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461535941/Lindisfarne_Gospels.html (83 words)

	Lindisfarne Gospels
		Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the [[Gospel of Matthew.]] The Lindisfarne Gospels are an illustrated Latin edition of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
		The manuscript was produced on Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the late 7th century or early 8th century, and is generally regarded as the finest example of the kingdom's unique style of religious art, a style that combined Anglo-Saxon and Celtic themes.
		The Gospels are richly illustrated in the insular style, and were originally encased in a fine leather binding covered with jewels and metals made by Billfrith the Anchorite in the 8th century.
	lindisfarne-gospels.kiwiki.homeip.net (338 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient Diocese and Monastery of Lindisfarne
		Lindisfarne is famous for being the mother-church and religious capital of Northumbria, for here St.
		Lindisfarne owes much of its glory to St. Cuthbert, who ruled its church for two years, and whose incorrupt body was there venerated during two centuries.
		In 793 the Danes invaded the island, pillaged the church, and slaughtered or drowned the monks.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09269a.htm (1343 words)

	Lindisfarne - OrthodoxWiki
		Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which is connected to the mainland of Northumberland by a causeway, and is cut off twice a day by tides.
		Northumberland's patron saint, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, was a monk and later abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.
		The Gospels are illustrated in a Celtic style, and were originally covered with a fine metal case made by a hermit.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Lindisfarne (599 words)

	Guardian \| Lindisfarne gospels going home
		The priceless Lindisfarne gospels, one of the oldest surviving works in the English language, are to be returned to the north-east after Tony Blair bowed to pressure from MPs, business and church leaders in the region.
		From there, it is expected that the gospels, 253 pages of exquisitely preserved calf skin dedicated to St Cuthbert, will leave for a permanent exhibition in Durham Cathedral, close to a choristers' school once attended by Mr Blair and a few miles from his Sedgefield constituency.
		Claims that the gospels were stolen from the north during Henry's dissolution of the monasteries cut little ice on the grounds that the manuscripts were a British masterpiece rather than a north-east treasure.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3976001-103690,00.html (418 words)

	The Lindisfarne Gospels
		Despite of its age of almost 1300 years, the Lindisfarne Gospels is in an extremely good state of preservation and world wide, it is even the only completely preserved evangeliary from the isles.
		Monk Eadfrith, who was made bishop of Lindisfarne shortly after Cuthbert's canonisation, is not only to be thanked for the complete copy of the gospel text in a particularly beautiful insular majuscule, but also for the entire illumination of the book.
		Besides Eadfrith, an inscription in the Lindisfarne Gospels from the 10th century names his later successor Æthelwald as bookbinder, and Billfrith the hermit was the goldsmith who executed the ornamenting of the book's binding.
	www.faksimile.ch /wer40_e.html (897 words)

	Lindisfarne Gospels Tour at Hexham Abbey
		Hosting the Gospels here is a joint effort and we are grateful for members of the other churches as well as of our own for their generous help.
		The Gospels display in Hexham Abbey is open to the public, daily from 10.00am to 5.30pm, with a late night opening on Fridays to 7.00pm (all subject to special services).
		The Lindisfarne Gospels - Facsimile on Tour is funded by: The Northumberland Strategic Partnership, One NorthEast, Tynedale Council's Event's Grant Scheme and the North Pennines Leader+ Programme, in association with the British Library and North East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (NEMLAC).
	www.tynedale.gov.uk /residents/newsviewsdetails.asp?newsid=275 (508 words)

	Destinations UK - Lindisfarne, Northumberland
		The island of Lindisfarne with its wealthy monastery was a favourite stop-over for Viking raiders from the end of the 8th century.
		Lindisfarne continued as an active religious site from the 12th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537.
		Lindisfarne is located off the Northumberland coast, 20 miles north of Alnwick, 13 miles south of Berwick-on-Tweed.
	www.historic-uk.com /DestinationsUK/Lindisfarne.htm (361 words)

	The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
		The Lindisfarne Gospels are illustrated in a Celtic style and were originally covered with a fine metal case made by a hermit.
		Lindisfarne had a large limeburning industry and the kilns are among the most complex in Northumberland.
		Lindisfarne was mainly a fishing community for many years, but tourism grew steadily throughout the 20th century, and is now a very popular destination.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /england/lindisfarne.htm (769 words)

	LawBuzz - Cherished Legal Rights - Books & Burning of Books - THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS - Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although the manuscript is undated, The Lindisfarne Gospels were likely copied and illustrated by Eadrith while he was still a monk at Lindisfarne Priory, on Holy Island (off the English Northumberland coast).
		Currently owned by the British Library, The Lindisfarne Gospels contain notes from a priest, Aldred, who also inserted a word-for-word Anglo-Saxon translation in the spaces between the lines of Latin text.
		Later, the foot-high Lindisfarne Gospels miraculously washed ashore and were taken to Durham where monks continued to produce other precious manuscripts.
	www.lawbuzz.com /cherished_rights/freedom_speech/gospels.htm (257 words)

	Orthodoxy’s Western Heritage - Lindisfarne: the Holy Isle, Saint Aidan: First Abbot, Saint Cuthbert: Favored of ...
		It was from Ireland that missionaries came preaching the Gospel to the heathen tribes of Britain's northern wilds.
		The pupils not only learned Latin and memorized the Gospels and Psalter, but in living with the older monks they were exposed to a world of concentrated prayer and missionary fervor which prepared them for a life of service to God.
		His body was initially buried at Lindisfarne, but when, in 664 the monastery accepted the decision of the Whitby Synod to adopt the Roman tradition, Aidan's second successor as abbot, St.
	www.roca.org /OA/57/57e.htm (1862 words)

	Holy Island Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB (page 49)
		The island was formally known as Lindisfarne and described as "The Jewel of the Northumberland Coast".
		The Lindisfarne Gospels were written in the late 7th century to celebrate the life of St Cuthbert.
		Lindisfarne gained international fame in the 1970's when it was taken as the name of a Tyneside pop band.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /vg/holy_island.html (1398 words)

	Everything is illuminated \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The Lindisfarne Gospels is a Latin gospel book illuminated on Holy Island, off the coast of Northumbria, in the early years of the eighth century AD.
		The life and dedication of the artists responsible for the great Northumbrian gospel books is further illuminated by the remarkable study Brown has written to accompany the exhibition, The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe.
		The great gospel books were, she writes, "portals of prayer" and the "act of copying and transmitting the Gospels was to glimpse the divine...
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,995443,00.html (1076 words)

	The Lindisfarne Gospels
		An opulent and richly decorated Gospel book, the Lindisfarne Gospels was created in the early eighth century CE for ceremonial use at the monastery of Lindisfarne in the northeast of England.
		At the start of each of the Gospels is an illustration of its author with his symbol, and throughout the text pages of the manuscript are numerous decorated initials.
		She considers the making of the Gospels and reveals her recent research into both the dating of the manuscript and the ways in which it was created.
	www.fathom.com /course/33702501/index.html (473 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Gospels' truth uncovered
		The gospels are now thought to have been written at the same time as Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English people, according to the British Library.
		The complex and lavishly decorated gospels are widely recognised as the pinnacle of Anglo Saxon cultural achievement.
		The gospels are on show at the British Library from Friday until 28 September.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3027095.stm (475 words)

	Lindisfarne Gospels will be restored to North-East
		THE Lindisfarne Gospels - the priceless illuminated 1,300-year-old manuscripts currently housed in the British Library - are to be moved to Newcastle upon Tyne following the personal intervention of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister.
		The Gospels were produced in 698 by monks on Holy Island, Lindisfarne, off the Northumbrian coast, in honour of St Cuthbert who died in 687.
		The Gospels are in both English and Latin because a word-for-word Anglo-Saxon translation was put in between the lines of Latin text between 950 and 970.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/03/19/nlin19.html (499 words)

	The Lindisfarne Gospels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Island of Lindisfarne, after which the Lindisfarne Gospels are named, lies about one and a half miles off the coast of Northumbria, separated from the mainland by a causeway accessible only at low tide.
		The Lindisfarne Gospel itself is almost as magnificent as the Book of Kells, and is one of the jewels of the world of Celtic art.
		The state of the Gospel’s binding was in very poor condition when it was first donated to the British Museum, and in 1852 the London jewellers Smith Nicholson, of Lincolns Inn Fields, rebound it, incorporating silver and precious stones.
	www.thecelticplanet.com /gospels.htm (965 words)

	GBW Newsletter 116 - Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, Cotton MS Nero D.iv) is included in a group of illuminated insular manuscript books produced during the 6th and 7th centuries in Ireland and Northumbria, an area of northeast Scotland and England.
		Although the Lindisfarne Gospels were produced in Northumbria, it's influence begins in Ireland.
		The Lindisfarne Gospels and other manuscript books of this era are a curious mixture of early Roman iconic (figurative) art and aniconic (nonfigurative) art.
	palimpsest.stanford.edu /byorg/gbw/news/gbw116/report1.html (1111 words)

	EBK for Kids: The Lindisfarne Gospels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is a page from a famous Saxon illuminated manuscript called the 'Lindisfarne Gospels'.
		It was written at Lindisfarne Priory in Northumbria in about AD 698.
		The 'Lindisfarne Gospels' are kept in the British Library in London.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /kids/lind_gosp.html (63 words)

	Early Bibles and Gospels
		The Lindisfarne Gospels represents the national masterpiece of England, or arguably, the national masterpiece of Northumberland, as there are moves to have it removed from the monolith of the British Library and restored to a rightful home in the north.
		Each gospel is preceded by an argumentum, or introduction, a capitula lectionum, or list of passages used as liturgical readings, and a list of festivals at which the passages should be read.
		The script of this work is not the insular half uncial used in the Lindisfarne Gospels, but a rather formal and laboured uncial, described by some authors as decadent.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /word/earlybible3.htm (1185 words)

	Northumbria Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gospels are a monument to the skills, organisation and resources of the mid 8th century Northumbrian Golden Age.
		The Lindisfarne Gospels are the oldest surviving English bible.
		The facsimile Lindisfarne Gospels are the result of a deal between the British Library, which is in possession of the manuscript and a Swiss publisher.
	www.northumbrianassociation.co.uk /lindisfarne/index.html (857 words)

	Lindisfarne
		Lindisfarne is situated off the Northumberland coast in the north east of England, just a few miles south of the border with Scotland.
		Lindisfarne became known for its skill in Christian art of which the Lindisfarne Gospels are the most important surviving example.
		Lindisfarne, because it had been the home of St. Aidan and St. Cuthbert, was visited by pilgrims and it was claimed was responsible for several miracles.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORlindisfarne.htm (430 words)

	About Us - Lindisfarne Mead
		The motifs illuminating our labels are drawn from Bishop Eadfrith's magnificient Lindisfarne Gospels written circa 700 AD., which, with the Books of Durrow and Kells, remain a living testimony to the devotion and love of beauty and culture which existed in those distant times.
		Lindisfarne Mead is a unique alcoholic fortified wine manufactured here on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.
		The honey which is used in the production of Lindisfarne Mead is drawn from the four corners of the world and here, on the island, it is vatted with fermented grape juice, honey, herbs, and the pure natural water of an artesian well and fortified with fine spirits to produce this unique drink.
	www.lindisfarne-mead.co.uk /AboutUs.aspx (272 words)

	The Lindisfarne Gospels
		The model for the main text of Lindisfarne, which is a Latin Vulgate, was probably obtained on inter-library loan from Monkwearmouth-Jarrow and was probably from Italy.
		Meanwhile, against the background of all of this, the mile-long queue that perpetually snakes around the quad at Trinity was there waiting to pass by the dimly lit mystical object itself, for reason of devotion, of cultural tourism, nationalism, or with whatever motivation.
		The Lindisfarne Gospels are kept in The British Library with state-of-the-art conditions that can ensure the very best levels not only of preservation but also of exposure to the public through different levels of interpretative access.
	www.fathom.com /course/33702501/session3.html (1577 words)

	BBC - Tyne - Features - Lindisfarne Gospels
		The Lindisfarne Gospels have a uniquely important place in the art and culture of the North East, and the Christian heritage of the area.
		The Lindisfarne Gospels contain the gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerning the life of Jesus.
		In 1069, the Lindisfarne Gospels spent a short time back at Lindisfarne to escape the devastating raid on the North mounted by the new Norman king, William the Conqueror.
	www.bbc.co.uk /tyne/features/gospels/gospels_tense_past.shtml (781 words)

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