The book was probably written some time between St Cuthbert's death ... a date of around 710-720. The Lindisfarne Gospels contain the gospels of Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerning ...

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island ... s task is to copy the Latin text of all four Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – and illustrate them ...

Eadfrith became Bishop of Lindisfarne in around 698 and died in 721. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic church, yet the gospels are his greatest legacy. Matthew Evangelist portrait ...

Italian features of the Lindisfarne Gospels include the way the text is laid out in two columns and mention of the Italian St Januarius in an introductory page. Eadfrith's text closely follows the ...

The book was produced in the 8th century and is the oldest readable English translation of Matthew ... by St Jerome (d. 420)." "The copying and decoration of the Lindisfarne Gospels represent ...

The gospels, designated a national treasure in the 1960s, were penned by the monks of Lindisfarne in the early 8th Century. St Jerome's page will be turned after tomorrow to reveal St Matthew's ...

Written by Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne in honour of St Cuthbert, it contains the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into the English language. Described as the region's "great saint ...

St Cuthbert’s most tangible miracle was not a hallowed tale, however, but an object. He was the inspiration behind the Lindisfarne Gospels, created in the early 8th century in a monastery on the tidal ...

The Gospels were carried for 200 years around the region together with the body of St Cuthbert before ... of the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Lindisfarne Gospels recount ...

VISITORS flocked to see “a masterpiece of Northumbrian pictorial art” after the pages of the Lindisfarne ... John’s gospel, allowing visitors to see a full-page portrait of the saint ...

21 marks the feast day of St. Matthew, also known as Levi, an apostle of Jesus and, according to tradition, the author of one of the four Gospels. Surprisingly little is known for certain about ...