Raiding the Archive: a Study in the Veneration and Visibility of The
Raiding the Archive: A Study in the Veneration and Visibility of the Lindisfarne Gospels Rebecca Welzenbach Submitted in Partial Completion of Research Honors April 13, 2007 Table of Contents Introduction 6 I. Leaving Lindisfarne: “And the Word was God” 12 II. The Library of Sir Robert Cotton: Judging Books by their Covers 25 III. The Lindisfarne Gospels in the British Library: An Absent Presence 42 Conclusion 59 Appendix 63 List of Figures 1. Book-shrine of Cathach of Columcille (Brown, Lindisfarne Fig. 79). 2. Map of Northumbria in the eighth century by John Mitchell (Brown, Lindisfarne Fig. 2). 3. Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero.D.iv), f. 90r, Mark prologue (Brown, Lindisfarne Pl. 13). 4. Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero.D.iv), 1853 treasure binding, upper cover (Brown, Lindisfarne Pl. 1). 5. Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero.D.iv), f. 210v, John carpet page (Brown, Lindisfarne Pl. 24). 6. Portrait of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton by Paul van Somer, engraved by George Vertue (Tite Fig. 10). 7. Example of a Cottonian binding, early seventeenth century (Brown, Lindisfarne Fig. 59) Welzenbach 5 8. Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero.D.iv), f. 25v, Matthew evangelist miniature (Brown, Lindisfarne Pl. 8). 9. Artist’s rendering of the library room in Cotton House (Tite Fig. 34). 10. Duke Humphrey’s library, Bodleian Library, Oxford (Tite Fig. 32) 11. Staircase in Montagu House, from a print c. 1810 (Alston, Inside front cover). 12. Robert Smirke’s museum building, from a watercolor by George Scharf, 1845 (Wilson Pl. 18). 13. Plan of the British Museum’s ground floor (Wilson 377).
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