16-1Cross-inscribed carpet page, folio 26 verso of the Lindisfarne Gospels,from Northumbria, England, ca. 698–721. Tempera
on vellum, 1 11 – 2 9 – 41 . British Library, London.
Missionaries brought Christianity to the British Isles. The greatest examples of Hiberno-Saxon art are the Gospel books in which
illuminators married Christian imagery with the native animal-interlace style.
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