The Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels: Now first printed from the original manuscripts in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library, Volume 48Joseph Stevenson, George Waring Society, 1865 |
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Page xxxii - ... in one or more ribbons diagonally but symmetrically interlaced, forming an endless variety of patterns ; 2nd, one, two, or three slender spiral lines coiling one within another till they meet in the centre of the circle, their opposite ends going off to other circles; 3rd, a vast variety of lacertine animals and birds, hideously attenuated and coiled one within another, their tails, tongues, and top-knots forming long narrow ribbons irregularly interlaced ; 4th, a series of diagonal lines, forming...
Page xxxvi - ... with silver, unalloyed metal. And Aldred, an unworthy and most miserable priest, with the help of God and St. Cuthbert, glossed it above in English, and made himself familiar with the three parts : Matthew's part for God and St.
Page xxxii - A vast variety of laoertine animals and birds, hideously attenuated, and coiled one within another, with their tails, tongues, and top-knots forming long narrow ribbons irregularly interlaced. 4th. A series of diagonal lines, forming various kinds of Chinese-like patterns. These ornaments are generally introduced into small compartments, a number of which are arranged so as to form the large initial letters and borders, or tessellated pages, with which the finest manuscripts are decorated.
Page xciv - Saxon portion of it to the end of the ninth or the beginning of the tenth century.
Page lxxxix - Postquam autem crucifixerunt eum, diviserunt vestimenta ejus, sortem mittentes • ut impleretur quod dictum est per Prophetam dicentem: Diviserunt sibi vestimenta mea, et super vestem meam miserunt sortem.
Page xx - Northumbrians found that the sea had retreated much further than usual ; and, going out three miles or more, they discovered the Book of the Holy Gospels, which had lost none of the external brilliancy of its gems and gold, nor any of the internal beauty of the illuminations and the fairness of its leaves, but appeared as if it had been wholly untouched by water. By this were their hearts refreshed with much joy.
Page xxxvi - Cuthbert, and all the company of saints in the island ; and .¿Ethilwald, bishop of Lindisfarne, made an outer cover, and adorned it as he was well able ; and Billfrith, the anchorite, he wrought the metal work of the ornaments on the outside thereof, and decked it with gold and with gems, overlaid also with silver, unalloyed metal. And Aldred, an unworthy and most miserable priest, by the help of God and St. Cuthbert, over-glossed the same in English, and domiciled himself with the three parts.
Page xxxvi - ... gloss of St John's Gospel in this MS. is, for the most part, written in red ink, and in a different hand. The key to this is given by the note at the end of the Gospel, printed at p.
Page xxx - Among the colours, which are often laid on very thick, only the red and the blue are, properly speaking, opaque ; but all the colours are as brilliant as if the paintings had been finished only yesterday.