Together these four " foundation collections " included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving copy of Beowulf.

At some point in the early 700s the famous illuminated manuscript known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, was made probably at Lindisfarne and the artist was possibly Eadfrith, who later became Bishop of Lindisfarne.

The Lindisfarne Gospels now reside in the British Library in London, somewhat to the annoyance of some Northumbrians.

The Lindisfarne Gospels have also featured on television among the top few Treasures of Britain.

* Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne ( 698 – 721 ) and presumed author of the Lindisfarne Gospels

Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels, c 700.

Northumbria played an important role in the formation of Insular art, a unique style combining Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Pictish, Byzantine and other elements, producing works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels, St Cuthbert Gospel, the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, and later the Book of Kells, which was probably created at Iona.

After the Synod of Whitby in 664 Roman church practices officially replaced the Celtic ones but the influence of the Celtic style continued, the most famous examples of this being the Lindisfarne Gospels.

* Brown ( 2003 ), Brown, Michelle P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe, 2003, British Library, ISBN 978-0-7123-4807-2

The area has a strong religious past, as can be seen in works such as the Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels ( 715-720 AD ) are an early example ( Brown 2004 ).

Carpet page from Lindisfarne Gospels, showing knotwork detail.

These knots are most known for their adaptation for use in the ornamentation of Christian monuments and manuscripts, such as the 8th-century St. Teilo Gospels, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels.

Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.

The Lindisfarne Gospels ( London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D. IV ) is an Illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700 AD in a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne, which is now on display in the British Library in London.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are presumed to be the work of a monk named Eadfrith, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721.

* Turning the Pages Leaf through the Lindisfarne Gospels online using the British Library's Turning the Pages software ( requires Shockwave plugin )

The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald ca.

Eadberht of Lindisfarne, the next bishop ( and Saint ) was buried in the place from which Cuthbert's body was exhumed earlier the same year when the priory was abandoned in the late ninth century.

Lindisfarne Castle from the harbour

Robson Green manages to swim from the mainland to Lindisfarne Castle.

For instance, the carriage of the remains of St Cuthbert from Lindisfarne to Durham is the subject of " The Road from Lindisfarne ", the third movement of the Durham Concerto ( 2007 ) by Jon Lord.

* ' Hover & Hear ' pronunciations in the traditional dialect of Lindisfarne, and compare side by side with other accents from the UK and around the World.

The band members were five friends from Creggan and the Bogside, who originally drew inspiration from such artists as the Beatles, Small Faces and Lindisfarne.

Lindisfarne on the east coast was founded from Iona by Saint Aidan in about 635, and was to remain the major Northumbrian monastic centre, producing figures like Wilfrid and Saint Cuthbert.

However, Bede admits that it was Penda who freely allowed Christian missionaries from Lindisfarne into Mercia, and did not restrain them from preaching.

He grew up near the new offshoot from Lindisfarne at Melrose Abbey, which is today in Scotland but was then in Northumbria.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.

In 684, Cuthbert was elected Bishop of Hexham, at a synod at Twyford ( believed to be present-day Alnmouth ), but was reluctant to leave his retirement and take up his charge ; it was only after a visit from a large group, including king Ecgfrith, that he agreed to return and take up the duties of bishop, but instead as Bishop of Lindisfarne, swapping with Eata, who went to Hexham instead.

Crinoid columnals extracted from limestone quarried on Lindisfarne, or found washed up along the foreshore, which were threaded into necklaces or rosaries, became known as St Cuthbert's beads.

Monks from Iona under St. Aidan founded the See of Lindisfarne in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 635, whence Celtic practice heavily influenced northern England.

There is a significant amount of information known about Cuthbert thanks to two accounts of Cuthbert ’ s life that were written shortly after his death, the first by an anonymous monk from Lindisfarne, and the second by Bede, a famous monk, historian, and theologian.

* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

The Lindisfarne Gospels is called Insular or Hiberno-Saxon art, a general term that refers to manuscripts produced in the British Isles between 500-900 AD ( Backhouse 2004 ).

* Lindisfarne Gospels: information, zoomable image British Library website

Rimbaud ( so named as a tribute to poet Arthur Rimbaud, the ' Penny ' being a pun on the phrase " arfer ( half a ) penny ", referring to the long discontinued British Ha ' penny coin ) was expelled from two public schools, Brentwood School and Lindisfarne College, and went on to study philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, before quickly realising that, in his own words, ' Oxford wasn't about learning, but about a peculiarly unpleasant form of class indoctrination '.

The text is a very good and careful copy of the single Gospel of John from what has been called the " Italo-Northumbrian " family of texts, other well-known examples of which are several manuscripts from Wearmouth-Jarrow, including the Codex Amiatinus, and in the British Library the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Gospel Book MS Royal 1.

It may also have held the Lindisfarne Gospels, now also in the British Library, and other books from Lindisfarne that were, and in several cases still are, at Durham Cathedral.

Milner followed the medieval note in relating the book to Cuthbert, and compared its script to that of the Lindisfarne Gospels, by then in the British Museum, examining the two side by side.

* 2003, British Library, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels *

* Brown ( 2003 ), Brown, Michelle P., The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe, 2003, British Library, ISBN 978-0-7123-4807-2

Lady Eleanor, a song first released in 1970 by the British folk-rock band Lindisfarne is based on this story.

Especially in Northumbria, the Insular art style shared across the British Isles produced much of the finest work being produced in Europe until the Viking raids and invasions largely suppressed the movement ; the Book of Lindisfarne is one example certainly produced in Northumbria.

* Lindisfarne ( band ), a popular British folk / rock band ( 1969-2004 ).

Lindisfarne were a British folk / rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1970 ( originally called Brethren ) and fronted by singer / songwriter Alan Hull.