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Lindisfarne Gospels, the
     
Lindisfarne Gospels, the
an illuminated (=with the pages decorated with gold paint and other bright colours) copy of the four Christian Gospels, produced at the end of the 7th century on the island of Lindisfarne and now kept in the British Museum
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