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Volume XX: The Durham Gospels

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Volume XX: The Durham Gospels

This volume consists of two parts. The first part is an incomplete copy of the gospels written in a very expert insular majuscule early in the eighth century. It is ornamented throughout, and in its script, in the nature of its text and in the form of its decoration it serves as a link between the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels. This manuscript throws much light on the work of the scribes and artists in the Northumbrian monasteries during the period which is often known as the Golden Age of Northumbria. The second part of the volume consists of fragments of the Gospel of St Luke written late in the seventh century or early in the eighth in a type of uncial found in the Codex Amiatinus.

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