Asset Overview
Title: St. Chad Gospels / Lichfield Gospels / St Teilo Gospels / Llandeilo Fawr Gospels.
Page: Cross-Carpet
Item No.: MS Lich 01, Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield, England.
Date: c. 730.
Language: Latin; marginal writing in Latin, Old Welsh and Old English.
Codicology: Written in iron gall ink on vellum. Script is Insular majuscule with some uncial characteristics. Text written in single columns. Scribes used various efficiencies, including Insular Symbols, Nomina Sacra, Contractions, & Tironian Notae. Dry-point marginal writing. Rebound in: 17th century; 1707 (pages trimmed); 1862 (cut into single leaves); 1962, Roger Powell (pages flattened).
Foliation: 236 folios + iv (added later).
Digitization: Team led by Bill Endres in 2010. See https://lichfield.ou.edu
For more information, see "The St Chad Gospels: Potentials for 3D in the Study of Manuscripts" at https://youtu.be/ebr0HNnNNrs
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