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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 [German text].
Publisher: Faksimile Verlag Luzern, Luzern;
Date of Publication: 2002
Stock Code: 8766
Folio, pp. [518]. Number 73 in a Limited Edition of 980 copies numbered in Arabic numerals, bound in a replica of the current Victorian treasure binding (this binding limited to just 290 copies of the 980). Full maroon velvet heavily embellished with filigree metalwork in pewter & silver and glass faux jewels mounted on the surface, housed in black leather-covered flock-lined presentation slipcase with cream titles and transparent window in lid to reveal the opulent binding. Society, Spirituality and the Scribe: octavo, pp. xvi, 479, [1], 149 Appendices, [1]; 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 place-markers, each housed in a plain black cloth-covered slipcase. Volumes all clean and crisp. Presentation case only very slightly rubbed; Commentary slipcases rubbed with several pale scuff-marks, particularly to lower edge. Overall condition: volumes Fine and slipcases Near Fine (Presentation case) and Very Good (Commentary cases). The facsimile edition of the British Library Cotton MS Nero D IV, the oldest Gospel translation from Latin into Old English dating from 721, and published in association with the British Library. 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. The original binding was stripped from the Gospels during the sixteenth-century Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, and the current bejewelled binding was added during Victorian times as a suitably opulent addition to such an important text; this is the most luxurious of the reproductions with the sought-after facsimile of the current treasure binding. Sold