# Book of Lindisfarne [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Irish]() - Date: 0651-0700 - Technique: Manuscript \(Cotton Ms. Nero D. IV\), 340 x 245 mm ## Commentary Book of Lindisfarne c. 700 Manuscript \(Cotton Ms. Nero D. IV\), 340 x 245 mm British Library, London The Lindisfarne Gospels, which has survived virtually intact, contains 258 folios with four evangelist portraits, five carpet pages and numerous pages with decorative initials. The miniaturist was Eadfrith, bishop of Lindisfarne \(died 721\). The Latin text has been translated into Anglo-Saxon in additions written between the lines. The portrait of the evangelist St. Matthew is depicted on folio 25v. It is clearly derived from the same model as the portrait of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus, which was made in Northumbria at almost exactly the same date. In the upper corner is St. Matthew's symbol in art, the man with wings, captioned here 'Imago hominis' and blowing a trumpet. ## Related artworks - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Durrow]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() - [Book of Kells]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()