Carpet Page Lindisfarne Gospels

One bird situated in the upper left hand quadrant has blue and pink stripes in contrast to others that sport registers of feathers.

Carpet page lindisfarne gospels.

In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message. British library a dense interplay of stacked birds teem underneath the crosses of the carpet page that opens john s gospel. Jerome and pope damasus i. Time of social upheaval and devastation invasions.

A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts. Made in italy. Lindisfarne gospels john s cross carpet page folio 210v. There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out.

793 ce vikings pillaged the monastery but the monks were able to keep the lindisfarne gospels safe. 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. Lindisfarne island off the coast of northumberland in england. Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship.

Produced in the british isles between 500 900 ce.