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The Lindisfarne Gospels : society, spirituality and the scribe / Michelle P. Brown.
Fine Arts Library ND3359.L5 B76 2003 1 v. + disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
- Series:
- British Library studies in medieval culture
- The British Library studies in medieval culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lindisfarne Gospels.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon--England--Holy Island (Island).
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England--Holy Island (Island).
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Bible. Gospels--Illustrations.
- Bible.
- England--Holy Island (Island).
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 479 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
- System Details:
- System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: PDF file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader ; PC and MAC compatible.
- text file
- Summary:
- Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Appendix 2 : the contents of the Lindisfarne Gosepls : key to manuscript sigla in the final column of the text table : table showing the textual arrangement of the Lindisfarne Gospels, with selective collation.
- Contents:
- 1 The genesis of the Lindisfarne Gospels 13
- Lindisfarne and its book: the historical context 13
- Were the Lindisfarne Gospels made at Lindisfarne? 38
- A scenario for production: the collaboration between Lindisfarne and Wearmouth/Jarrow 53
- Wearmouth/Jarrow, their approach to books and their cultural influence on the cult of St Cuthbert 57
- The early cult of St Cuthbert and its historical context 64
- Script as icon: the book as teacher, preacher and cult focus 66
- 2 The Lindisfarne Gospels: the biography of the book 84
- Provenance: what does the later history of the Lindisfarne Gospels reveal? 84
- The community of St Cuthbert: from Lindisfarne to Durham 85
- Aldred's gloss and colophon 90
- Transcription and translation of Aldred's 'colophon group' 102
- Tradition concerning the making of the Lindisfarne Gospels: who were Eadfrith, Aethilwald and Billfrith? 104
- Symeon of Durham and the Lindisfarne Gospels 110
- Back to Lindisfarne? 114
- The dissolution of the monasteries 121
- The later history of the manuscript 123
- Miscellaneous early annotations 123
- Later medieval and modern additions and annotations 126
- Exhibiting the Lindisfarne Gospels 139
- Facsimiles and reproductions 140
- 3 Enshrining Scripture: the text of the Lindisfarne Gospels 150
- Collations, transcriptions, glossaries and printed editions 150
- The place of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the dissemination of Scripture: the background 151
- Wearmouth/Jarrow and the Ceolfrith Bibles 155
- The subsequent Vulgate tradition 161
- The Lindisfarne Gospels as a witness to the Vulgate 162
- The Lindisfarne Gospels' textual stemma 172
- Prefatory matter 177
- The Canon Tables 179
- Liturgical apparatus 182
- Layout and its liturgical implications 185
- Conclusions from the liturgical evidence 191
- 4 Sacred codicology: the physical preparation, writing and binding of the Lindisfarne Gospels 200
- The codicology of the Lindisfarne Gospels 200
- The membrane and the preparation of the quires 200
- Collation of the Lindisfarne Gospels 203
- Dimensions, pricking and ruling 204
- Binding history 205
- The original binding 205
- The nineteenth-century treasure binding, the earlier treasure binding and the Cottonian rebinding 207
- Planning the layout: the technical innovation of the artist-scribe 213
- The Word made word: the display script of the Lindisfarne Gospels 227
- The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Insular tradition of display scripts 230
- The palaeography of the main text script 244
- Punctuation 249
- Orthography 251
- Numerical annotation and corrections 251
- The place of the Lindisfarne Gospels within the 'Insular system of scripts' 253
- 5 The art of the Lindisfarne Gospels 272
- The programme of decoration 272
- Design, painting technique and materials 275
- The use of decoration to articulate the text: the use of initials 299
- The Canon Tables, the Jerome Prefaces and the prefatory matter preceding each Gospel 300
- The Gospel carpet pages 312
- The Gospel incipit pages and the Chi-rho page 331
- The evangelist miniatures 346
- The Early Christian context and its reception in Insular manuscripts 346
- The place of the Lindisfarne evangelist miniatures within the Insular tradition 350
- The artefactual stylistic context of the Lindisfarne Gospels 370
- Abstract and zoomorphic ornament: the menagerie of the Lindisfarne Gospels and the vortex of Creation 370
- Preaching with the pen in the scribal desert: the meaning and making of the Lindisfarne Gospels 395
- Appendix 1 Analysis of the pigments used in the Lindisfarne Gospels / Katherine Brown, Michelle P. Brown, David Jacobs 430.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-429) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802088252
- 0802085970
- OCLC:
- 51922367
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