Matthew folio 26 verso of the lindisfarne gospels from northumbria england c.
Lindisfarne gospels carpet page.
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In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message.
The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st.
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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.
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The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew.
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.