Carpet Cross Page Lindisfarne Gospels

A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts.

Carpet cross page lindisfarne gospels.

The lindisfarne gospels were written before 720. Four of the carpet pages appear alongside incipit pages that mark the beginning of each gospel. The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew. The book includes five highly elaborate full page carpet pages so called because of their resemblance to carpets from the eastern mediterranean.

Briefly describe a cross inscribed carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels. Cross carpet page the lindisfarne gospels. This is the currently selected item. Bible moralisée moralized bibles saint louis bible moralized bible the golden haggadah.

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. Made in italy. The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st. There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out.

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. This manuscript had of course to be featured in my book the art and history of calligraphy published by the british library in may 2017. In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message. Matthew folio 26 verso of the lindisfarne gospels from northumbria england c.

793 ce vikings pillaged the monastery but the monks were able to keep the lindisfarne gospels safe. What does it show. Produced in the british isles between 500 900 ce. Church and reliquary of sainte foy france.

The bayeux tapestry seven ages of britain bbc one. It is a design which involves the entire page in zoomorphic forms intermingling with clusters and knots producing rhythm and energy yet held in check by the regularity of the design and dominating cross motif. Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship. Jerome and pope damasus i.

Lindisfarne island off the coast of northumberland in england. Time of social upheaval and devastation invasions.