# 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 carpet pages of the Book of Lindisfarne are among the greatest treasures of insular book-painting. The picture shows one of the five carpet pages \(folio 210v\), which faces the text of the beginning of St John's gospel. ## 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]()