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The Lindisfarne Gospels is a manuscript that contains the Gospels of the four Evangelists Mark, John, Luke, and Matthew. The Lindisfarne Gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page, introducing the letter of St. Jerome and Pope Damasus I. [27]
Leningrad Gospels (Leningrad, Public Library Cod. F. v. I. 8) Leningrad Paulinus (Leningrad, Public Library Cod. Q. v. XIV. 1) Lichfield Gospels (Book of St. Chad) (Lichfield, Cathedral Library) Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D. IV) Lothian Psalter (Blickling Psalter) (New York, Morgan Library & Museum MS M. 776)
A colophon added to the Lindisfarne Gospels in the tenth century states that Eadfrith was the scribe and artist responsible for the work. The Lindisfarne Gospels were the product of a single scribe and illustrator, working full-time over a period of about two years.
Aldred's colophon indicates that the Gospels were written by Eadfrith, a bishop of Lindisfarne in 698, the original binding was supplied by Ethelwald, Eadfrith's successor in 721, and the outside ornamentation was done by Billfrith, an anchorite of Lindisfarne. He also states that the Gospels were created for God and St Cuthbert. [6]
Folio 27 of the Lindisfarne Gospels, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D.IV. Insular illumination refers to the production of illuminated manuscripts in the monasteries of Ireland and Great Britain between the 6th and 9th centuries, as well as in monasteries under their influence on continental Europe.
The Lindisfarne Gospels are one example of the valuable and prestigious works collected by Sir Robert Cotton. They are now in the British Library.. The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631).
The Lindisfarne Gospels were kept at Durham until 1539, when during the Dissolution of the Monasteries St Cuthbert's shrine there was looted and they were taken to London. Today they are kept at the British Library , but a facsimile copy is kept at the church and can be viewed when the church is open.
The Gospels today are in a different binding, as Billfrith's craftsmanship has not survived. [ 4 ] The name Billfrith occurs in the Durham Liber Vitae , and the latter is the only pre- Conquest source other than the Lindisfarne colophon containing Billfrith's name. [ 6 ]