Lindisfarne Gospels Carpet Page

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Lindisfarne gospels carpet page. Introduction to the middle ages. There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out. Standard scenes from the life of christ in art. Essay by louisa woodville.

Google classroom facebook twitter. Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship. In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message. They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms typically placed at the beginning of each of the four gospels in gospel books.

Lindisfarne gospels john cross carpet page f 210v british library the book is a spectacular example of insular or hiberno saxon art works produced in the british isles between 500 900 c e a time of devastating invasions and political upheavals. The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st. Matthew folio 26 verso of the lindisfarne gospels from northumbria england c. The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew.

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