I broke my rule.
I took on a new assignment without finishing the backlog I said I’d finish first.
But in my defense…. I have no defense. It’s pretty? Read more about this piece after the break.
My First Meridian Scroll
Tag: hiberno-saxon
Lindisfarne Gospels and Luttrell Psalter
The British Library has a lot of digitized manuscripts online, which is awesome for SCA Scribes. Two of their best known treasures haven’t yet made the move from their old site, “Digitized Manuscripts”, to the new one, “Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts” – the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Luttrell Psalter. That’s because the Lindisfarne is a Cotton manuscript and the Luttrell is an Additional, and both of these collections haven’t yet made the transition yet.
The old site (DM) is actually really cool – when you click “View Bindings,” you get a viewer that allows you to page through the digitized manuscript and zoom in on elements. The new site (CIM) only gives you one high-res image and one slightly smaller one (in additional to thumbnails). They do have some detail scans, but it’s not the same (as you can imagine).
Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D.IV)
Lindisfarne, Northumberland
Eadfirth, Bishop of Lindisfarne (690-721)
Luttrell Psalter (Add MS 42130)
for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, Irnham, Lincolnshire
You can see the BL’s Access/Reuse/Copyright notes concerning images here: [Link]
Images used in this post are from Wikipedia.