In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message.
Lindisfarne gospels carpet page.
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The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew.
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Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship.
There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out.
They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms typically placed at the beginning of each of the four gospels in gospel books.
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Carpet page posted on december 14 2015 by mrsbowman1 cross and carpet page for st.
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A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts.