CottonCorpusGospelFragFol25vFacsimile.jpg
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Summary
| Description |
English:
1725 copy of a manuscript page, now destroyed, made in Lindisfarne ca. 700 AD
Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment
[1]
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| Date | original ca. 700 AD; this facsimile 1725 AD |
| Source | British Library (MS Stowe 1061, fol. 36r) |
| Author | Unknown author |
| Other versions | facsimile made in 1725 for Thomas Astle's book The Origin and Progress of Writing (1784). The original (Cotton MS Otho C.v) made in Lindisfarne c. 700 AD was badly damaged by fire in 1731 [2] . |
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| 2007-01-03 19:51 | 768×1301× (179515 bytes) | Dsmdgold | Higher resolution copy |
| 2005-07-19 09:48 | 375×617× (41548 bytes) | Dsmdgold | 18th century copy of page from the [[Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment]] from [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/illuminated/ here] {{pd-art}} [[Category:Illuminated manuscripts]] |