The Harris Free Public Libraries & Museum, Preston : catalogue of manuscripts, lithographs, and printed copies of the Scriptures, exhibited to illustrate the means by which the Bible has been transmitted, until the production in of the Authorized Version : with fifteen plates, also a brief account of the sources, and the previous history of the Bible in England . in the highest style of Anglo-Celtic art; and the finestcopy of the Vulgate known is the Codex Amiatinus, written atJarrow or Wearmouth, and taken by Abbot Ceolfrid as apresent to the Pope. The influence of the Irish art is se
The Harris Free Public Libraries & Museum, Preston : catalogue of manuscripts, lithographs, and printed copies of the Scriptures, exhibited to illustrate the means by which the Bible has been transmitted, until the production in of the Authorized Version : with fifteen plates, also a brief account of the sources, and the previous history of the Bible in England . in the highest style of Anglo-Celtic art; and the finestcopy of the Vulgate known is the Codex Amiatinus, written atJarrow or Wearmouth, and taken by Abbot Ceolfrid as apresent to the Pope. The influence of the Irish art is seenwherever Irish missionaries or scholars went ; and the namesof Scotus Erigena, Duns Scotus, remind us of their influencefar into the Middle Ages. For careful editing of the Bible, English scholars of York produced for the great Prankish EmperorCharles the standard edition which settled the order of Harding revised again about 1150 on the basis ofHebrew and Greek manuscripts. Stephen Langton made ourchapter divisions. Roger Bacon did good work in the thir-teenth century, and at length William Allen had a large sharein producing the present Authorized or Standard Edition ofthe Vulgate. The specimens exhibited show much of island art, and alsothe popular books : Psalter, Gospels, Revelation. UKiOnr viKiiirrii iimsecniroimnHrrrh^T: ^n. so. The Lindisfarne Gospels:Beginning- of Matthew. Refradticed by Irave of thr British Muienm. Latin Bibles of Ireland and England. 21 21-24. Four Pages from the Book of Durrow, a set of the gospels written in Ireland about 650. They werecopied from a manuscript written by Columba the Scot,who went to lona and became missionary to the Pictsand Kymry. {Lent by the Manchester Free PublicLibraries.) 25. Two Pages from a copy of the Gospels, written in theseventh century, showing a portrait of the evangelistMark, and the beginning of the third gospel. {Lent bythe Manchester Free Public Libraries.) XXVI. Lindisfarne an
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