Lindisfarne Gospels: Folio 3 Recto

Folio 3 recto from the Lindisfarne Gospels. The first of five major decorated openings in the manuscript introduces the letter which St Jerome addressed to Pope Damasus, at whose request he carried out the revision of the Latin Bible text during the late 4th century.

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