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Janet Backhouse.
The Lindisfarne Gospels.
Published London: Book Club Associates, 1981 (reprinted from the Phaidon Press edition).
ISBN 0714821489.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Singapore.
Size: 222x286x14mm.
Page count: 96pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is somewhat scuffed and rumpled, but not heavily worn; mild bumps to lower outside corner of the front boards and the top edge of the back; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £5.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 708g.

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Contents: Lindisfarne & St. Cuthbert; The men who made the manuscript; Text of the Gospels; The script; How the ms. was made; The great decorated pages; The smaller initials; Some comparisons; Later history of the ms.

Illustrations: illustrations throughout, 31 in colour, the rest monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

[BML/LF]
[PC1]

See also | Lindisfarne Gospels | Illuminated manuscripts | Bible |

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