The Lindisfarne Gospels is formed of more than 250 vellum pages and measures just over 36cm in height, about the size of a modern A3 sheet. The book’s original “treasure binding”, encrusted ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels, an 8th century illustrated Biblical ... says exhibition curator Michelle Brown. According to Brown, the book reveals eastern Christian and Islamic, as well as Celtic and ...

"What we wanted to do was make it more than just a book in a box in Durham. It's about the whole story of the making and it's meaning." The manuscript, created by Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne ...

"The Lindisfarne Gospels is many things to many people but, first and foremost, it is a book created in the North and of the North, by the community of Lindisfarne. "Curators will explore the ways ...

Lindisfarne, 12 miles south of Berwick ... Luckily they weren’t big readers and left the rest of the book. A later medieval priory went up on the site, only to be torn down during Henry VIII ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels are “a masterpiece of early medieval European book painting”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Created in the early 700s by Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne island in ...

The lamp of civilisation (languages, books, artistic tradition) was kept alive in monasteries such as Lindisfarne — Holy Island — in the dark centuries after the Romans had left Britain. The most ...

Large-scale images from the manuscript and a replica of the complete book will be carried by procession into the ruins of Lindisfarne Priory. The programme will include well-known songs and hymns ...

Allan Massie To The Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne, by Alistair Moffat Canongate, 317pp, £20. Alistair Moffat is appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 25 August Did ...

Excitement is building as one of the most revered books in UK history is set to return to the North East on September 17. Here's everything you need to know about the Lindisfarne Gospels return to ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels, an 8th century illustrated Biblical ... says exhibition curator Michelle Brown. According to Brown, the book reveals eastern Christian and Islamic, as well as Celtic and ...