Book of Durrow Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The
Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 57) is an
illuminated manuscript made either in
Northumbria in Northern
England or at Durrow Abbey near
Durrow in
County Laois,
Ireland, with modern and traditional scholarship tending towards Durrow. It is a
Gospel Book, possibly the oldest extant complete illuminated gospel from Britain and Ireland. The text includes the
Gospels of
Matthew,
Mark,
Luke and
John, plus several pieces of prefatory matter. It is 247 by 228 mm and contains 248
vellum folios. It contains a large illumination program including six extant carpet pages, a full page miniature of the four evangelist's symbols, four full page miniatures, each containing a single evangelist symbol, and six pages with decorated text.
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