Lindisfarne Carpet Page

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Lindisfarne carpet page.

A dense interplay of stacked birds teem underneath the crosses of the carpet page that opens john s gospel. This is the currently selected item. Jerome and pope damasus i. The book includes five highly elaborate full page carpet pages so called because of their resemblance to carpets from the eastern mediterranean.

Detailed entwined decorations with the shape of a cross. A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts. Lindisfarne gospels john cross carpet page f 210v british library the book is a spectacular example of insular or hiberno saxon art works produced in the british isles between 500 900 c e a time of devastating invasions and political upheavals. Church and reliquary of sainte foy france.

One bird situated in the upper left hand quadrant has blue and pink stripes in contrast to others that sport registers of feathers. Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship. Four of the carpet pages appear alongside incipit pages that mark the beginning of each gospel. Lindisfarne gospels john s cross carpet page folio 210v.

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. Kathleen yes this is an extraordinary copy of the four gospels so the accounts of jesus life and teaching written by his disciples and followers matthew mark luke and john. There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out. The copying and decoration of the lindisfarne gospels represent a remarkable artistic achievement.

In front of each of these four books is an extraordinary page typically referred to as a carpet page. In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message. The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew. The book of lindisfarne opens with one of five elaborate full page decorative carpet pages cruciform geometric designs reminiscent of eastern hand made rugs.

The lindisfarne gospels is one of the most important books in the history of the english language and culture. The bayeux tapestry seven ages of britain bbc one.