Articles

1. Newton, FL; Scheirer, CRJ. "Domiciling the evangelists in Anglo-Saxon England: A fresh reading of Aldred's colophon in the 'Lindisfarne Gospels'." Anglo-Saxon England  vol. 41   101-144. [doi]

   Abstract:
   The Codex 'Lindisfarnensis' (London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. iv, early eighth century) was glossed in Old English by the tenth-century priest Aldred. Aldred's colophon purports to give information about the eighth-century makers of the manuscript, at Lindisfarne. What is actually reliable about this highly literary colophon is Aldred's purpose in writing the gloss: to give the Evangelists a voice to address 'all the brothers'-particularly the Latinless. We propose new interpretations of three OE words (gihamadi, inlad, ora) misunderstood before. Aldred was learned; his sources extend from Ovid through the Fathers to contemporary texts. © 2013 Cambridge University Press.