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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] There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables, where parallel passages of the four Evangelists are laid out. [41]
These initials are surrounded by small red dots, which is a common motif in many Insular manuscripts, including the Lindisfarne Gospels. The prologues and the Gospel of John begin with enlarged black initials which are also surrounded by red dots. The Canon Tables are under columns and arches of black lines decorated in colored designs.
Canon tables from the Garima Gospels, Ethiopic gospel manuscripts of the sixth century; showing original Late Antique arcaded forms subsequently perpetuated in Byzantine and Romanesque manuscripts Canon table from the Book of Kells; the tables in the book were effectively unusable, as they were over-condensed and the corresponding sections were not marked in the main text.
London, British Library, Add MS 5111, Canon Tables from Byzantine Gospel Book (London Canon Tables; Commons) ... MS Cotton Nero D. IV (Lindisfarne Gospels) London ...
The best examples include the Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, Book of Durrow, brooches such as the Tara Brooch and the Ruthwell Cross. Carpet pages are a characteristic feature of Insular manuscripts, although historiated initials (an Insular invention), canon tables and figurative miniatures, especially Evangelist portraits, are also common.
The Breton Gospels Book contains St. Jerome's letter to Pope Damasus, The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew, and the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. [2] It also includes prefatory material and canon tables, an index for a medieval manuscript. [1] It consists of 102 folios, plus two unfoliated paper flyleaves. [1]
Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, ff. 1-36 (Formerly pp. 245–316) and London, British Library Cotton MS Otho C. V) Cuthbert Gospel of St John (Stonyhurst Gospel) British Library - for binding; Cutbercht Gospels (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 1224)
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.