VISITORS flocked to see “a masterpiece of Northumbrian pictorial art” after the pages of the Lindisfarne ... designs for the Gospels’ famous intricately patterned carpet pages and observers ...

Matthew Evangelist portrait, a 'carpet page' of the Lindisfarne Gospels. Courtesy of the British ... A different type of cross was drawn for each evangelist, but nothing in the book is there ...

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 ...