The British Library has been offered an exceptional opportunity to purchase the St Cuthbert Gospel, a pocket-sized gospel intimately connected with Britain’s foremost saint.
The St Cuthbert Gospel is one of the earliest surviving manuscripts to have been created in Britain. Dating from the seventh-century, this small, fragile pocket gospel has an intimate connection with St Cuthbert, one of Britain's foremost saints, having been apparently buried with him on Lindisfarne in 698. As the monks of Holy Island fled the Vikings during the succeeding centuries, they travelled extensively around the North East, and the Gospel was discovered in 1104 when his body was translated to his shrine at Durham Cathedral.
For more information and details of the appeal launched by the British Library to acquire this item, click here.
The St Cuthbert Gospel is one of the earliest surviving manuscripts to have been created in Britain. Dating from the seventh-century, this small, fragile pocket gospel has an intimate connection with St Cuthbert, one of Britain's foremost saints, having been apparently buried with him on Lindisfarne in 698. As the monks of Holy Island fled the Vikings during the succeeding centuries, they travelled extensively around the North East, and the Gospel was discovered in 1104 when his body was translated to his shrine at Durham Cathedral.
For more information and details of the appeal launched by the British Library to acquire this item, click here.
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