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Metrical colophon added to the ‘Lindisfarne Gospels’

Title: Metrical colophon added to the ‘Lindisfarne Gospels’
CLASP Abbreviation: N.Lindisfarne.Coloph

Literary Bibliography

Gameson, From Holy Island to Durham (2013), and Brown, The Lindisfarne Gospels (2003), pp. 13–83

Manuscripts

London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. iv

Folios: f. 259r
Date: c. 970 (just the poem)
Origin: Lindisfarne (original manuscript); Chester-le-Street (poem)
URL: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_nero_d_iv_fs001r
Gneuss-Lapidge number: 343

Bibliography

Dumville, David N., A Palaeographer's Review, Sources and Materials Series, 20, 2 vols (Osaka: Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University, 1999–2007), I, pp. 62, 64–65, 76–81, 94, 98