Lindisfarne Gospels

Lindisfarne Gospels
Lin|dis|farne Gos|pels, the
an ↑illuminated (=with the pages decorated with gold paint and other bright colours) copy of the four Christian ↑Gospels, produced at the end of the 7th century on the island of Lindisfarne and now kept in the ↑British Museum

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