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The Linoisfarne Gospels by: Backhouse, JanetSoftcover. Oxford, U.K., Phaidon House Ltd., Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color illustrations throughout. This is the first book to make the glories of The Lindisfarne Gospels accessible to a wide public. The Lindisfarne Gospels is a manuscript that was produced in the Northumbrian island monastery of Lindisfarne at the end of the seventh century in honor of Saint Cuthbert, and is one of the world's foremost masterpieces of book painting, considered a treasure of Catholicism. All the essential illuminated pages are reproduced impeccably here in color from an entirely new and accurate set of photographs. Clean copy. Record # 34049 |
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