Codex Lindisfarnensis


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Lindisfarne Gospels - 8th century.

In the British Library, Cotton MS Nero D IV.

Written in honour of St. Cuthbert (d. 687) and illuminated in the finest style of the Northumbrian Anglo-Celtic school. Contains the Gospels, with interlinear Anglo-Saxon translation added in the 9th century.

This is folio 90r containing the "argumentum" to the gospel according to St Mark.

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