Global InformationMac Durnan Gospels information
| Mac Durnan Gospels | |
|---|---|
| London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370 | |
 Mark 1:1 in the Mac Durnan Gospels | |
| Also known as | Book of Mac Durnan |
| Type | Gospels |
| Date | late 9th century (or early 10th) |
| Place of origin | Ireland |
| Scribe(s) | unknown, possibly Máel Brigte mac Tornáin |
| Material | Parchment |
| Size | 15.8cm x 11.1cm |
| Script | Irish minuscule script |
| Illumination(s) | portraits of the Evangelists |
| Additions | f. 3v: metrical inscription in square capitals |
The Mac Durnan Gospels or Book of Mac Durnan (London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book made in Ireland in the 9th or 10th century, a rather late example of Insular art.[1] Unusually,[citation needed] it was in Anglo-Saxon England soon after it was written, and is now in the collection of Lambeth Palace Library in London.[2]
It contains the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, without the usual prefatory matter, and has a full-page evangelist portrait of each. There is an opening quasi-carpet page with the four evangelists' symbols in panels around a cross, and some elaborately decorated incipit pages.
- ^ Stalley, Roger; Ryan, Michael; Brown, Michelle P. (2003). "Insular art". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T041391. ISBN 9781884446054. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
- ^ Keynes, "King Athelstan's books", p. 153.