Carpet Page Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne island off the coast of northumberland in england.

Carpet page lindisfarne gospels.

Made in italy. 793 ce vikings pillaged the monastery but the monks were able to keep the lindisfarne gospels safe. In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message. A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts.

There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out. British library a dense interplay of stacked birds teem underneath the crosses of the carpet page that opens john s gospel. Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship. They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms typically placed at the beginning of each of the four gospels in gospel books.

Produced in the british isles between 500 900 ce. Time of social upheaval and devastation invasions. The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew. One bird situated in the upper left hand quadrant has blue and pink stripes in contrast to others that sport registers of feathers.

Jerome and pope damasus i.