Mac Durnan Gospels
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Mac Durnan Gospels
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The Mac Durnan Gospels or Book of Mac Durnan is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book made in Ireland in the 9th or 10th century, a rather late example of Insular art. Unusually, it was in Anglo-Saxon England soon after it was written, and is now in the collection of Lambeth Palace Library in London. It contains the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, without the usual prefatory matter, and has a full-page evangelist portrait of each. There is an opening quasi-carpet page with the four
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