Domiciling the evangelists in Anglo-Saxon England: a fresh reading of Aldred's colophon in the ‘Lindisfarne Gospels’
Francis Newton|Christopher R. J. Scheirer
Abstract The Codex ‘Lindisfarnensis’ (London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. iv, early eighth century) was glossed in Old English by the tenth-century priest Aldred. Aldred's colophon purports to give information about eighth-century makers of manuscript, at Lindisfarne. What is actually reliable this highly literary purpose writing gloss: Evangelists a voice address ‘ all brothers’ – particularly Latinless. We propose new interpretations three OE words ( gihamadi, inlad, ora ) misunderstood before. Aldred learned; his sources extend from Ovid through Fathers contemporary texts.
Anglo-Saxon England