A Latin gospel book made around 715–720 at the island monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, probably by Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne, in honour of Saint Cuthbert. Its carpet pages weave Celtic knotwork, Anglo-Saxon animal interlace and Mediterranean models into dense patterns. In the 10th century the priest Aldred added an Old English gloss, the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English.
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Between the Latin lines runs Aldred's tiny Old English translation in a different hand. On the decorated opening pages, letters are outlined with thousands of minute red dots.
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