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The Lindisfarne Gospels/Das Büch von Lindisfarne, British Library Cotton MS Nero D IV; Fine Art Facsimile [with] Commentary volumes by Brown, Michelle P: The Lindisfarne Gospels Society, Spirituality and the Scribe with English text [and] Das Buch von Lindisfarne with German text.
Publisher: Faksimile Verlag Luzern, Luzern;
Date of Publication: 2002
Stock Code: 6625
Number 881 in a Limited Edition of 980 copies numbered in Arabic numerals. Folio, pp 518. Full plain cream goatskin with 4 raised bands, housed in black leather-covered flock-lined slipcase with cream titles. Society, Spirituality and the Scribe octavo, pp xvi, 479, [1], 149 Appendices; 177 figures within text plus 14 to Appendices; 32 colour plates. Das Buch von Lindisfarne octavo, pp 333, [1]. Commentary volumes bound in uniform oatmeal cloth with respectively blue and red printed title panels to spine and silk placemarkers, each housed in a plain black cloth-covered slipcase. All volumes Fine. Very minor scuffing to slipcases, which are Near Fine. Limitation leaf of Gospels, and title page of each commentary with discreet stamp: Kindly donated in 2015 to St Mary’s R C Church Loughborough by Graham and Mary Embleton. Facsimile edition of British Library Cotton MS Nero D IV, the oldest Gospel translation into Old English dating from 721. The Gospels are in the typically rich Celtic decorative style of illumination and this lavishly produced faithful rendition is the closest that a modern reader comes to being able to examine the original text. Published in association with the British Library, this edition is limited to 980 copies only. Sold