Research Catalog

Title

The Lindisfarne Gospels : new perspectives / edited by Richard Gameson.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Gameson, Richard

Description

xxix, 226 pages : color illustrations, maps; 30 cm

Summary

Masterpiece of medieval manuscript production and decoration, its Latin text glossed throughout in Old English, the Lindisfarne Gospels is a vital witness to the book culture, art, and Christianity of the Anglo-Saxons and their interactions with Ireland, Italy, and the wider world. The expert studies in this collection examine in turn the archaeology of Holy Island, relations between Ireland and Northumbrian, early Northumbrian book culture, the relationship of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the Church universal, the canon table apparatus of the manuscript, the decoration of its Canon Tables, its systems of liturgical readings, the mathematical principles underlying the design of its carpet pages, points of comparison and contrast with the Book of Durrow, the Latin and Old English texts, the nature of the glossator's ink, and the meaning of enigmatic words and phrases within the vernacular gloss. Approaching the material from a series of new perspectives, the contributors shed new light on numerous aspects of this magnificent manuscript, its milieux, and its significance.

Series Statement

• Library of the written word ; volume 57
• The manuscript world ; volume 9

Uniform Title

• Lindisfarne Gospels (Brill Academic Publishers)
• Library of the written word ; 57.
• Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 9.

Subjects

• Bible > Gospels
• England
• Manuscripts, English (Old)
• Lindisfarne Gospels
• England > Church history
• Bible > Gospels > Manuscripts
• Church history
• Bible > Gospels > English (Old English) > Lindisfarne Gospels
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England
• Manuscripts
• Bible > Gospels > Latin > Lindisfarne Gospels

Genre/Form

Church history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Call Number

JFF 17-2227

ISBN

• 9789004337831
• 9004337830

LCCN

2017014857

OCLC

978690994

Title

The Lindisfarne Gospels : new perspectives / edited by Richard Gameson.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Library of the written word ; volume 57

The manuscript world ; volume 9

Library of the written word ; 57.

Library of the written word. Manuscript world ; v. 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Gameson, Richard, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Lindisfarne gospels. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004337848 (DLC) 2017022927

Research Call Number

JFF 17-2227