There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out.
Lindisfarne gospels carpet page.
The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st.
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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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A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts.
Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship.
The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew.