Durham Gospels
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Durham Gospels
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The Durham Gospels is a very incomplete late 7th-century insular Gospel Book, now kept in the Durham Cathedral Dean and Chapter Library. A single folio of this manuscript is now in Magdalene College, Cambridge. Only two of the fully decorated pages survive: a Crucifixion and the initial to John, and both of these are in poor condition. There were probably originally evangelist portraits and carpet pages, as in other Insular Gospel books conceived on a similar scale. The book was produced at Lind
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2023-11-20T23:53:23Z
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