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English: 1725 copy of a manuscript page, now destroyed, made in Lindisfarne ca. 700 AD Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment [1]
Date original ca. 700 AD; this facsimile 1725 AD
Source British Library (MS Stowe 1061, fol. 36r)
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Other versions facsimile made in 1725 for Thomas Astle's book The Origin and Progress of Writing (1784). The original (Cotton MS Otho C.v) made in Lindisfarne c. 700 AD was badly damaged by fire in 1731 [2].

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2005-07-19 09:48 375×617× (41548 bytes) Dsmdgold 18th century copy of page from the [[Cotton-Corpus Christi Gospel Fragment]] from [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/illuminated/ here] {{pd-art}} [[Category:Illuminated manuscripts]]

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