The book of Lindisfarne. Cotton Ms. Nero D.IV of the British Library in London. Facsimile, 2 commentary volumes and documentation folder. 34 x 25 cm. O.S. cover with embroidered title and numerous fittings in silver-plated and gold-plated metal as well as 33 framed (tw. real) gemstones in OLeder cassette (Plexiglas on the front cover minimally rubbed) or O.L.einen in oleinencassette (lightly stained). ==References====External links== One of 290 Arabic numbered copies of the special edition in a faithful replica of the Victorian magnificient volume of 1852 (total edition: 1040). "The book by Lindisfarne is one of the most important milestones in human cultural creation. This evangeliar in Latin was born around the year 700 in the England of the late Middle Ages and coined a remarkable new style in which Celtic, Germanic and Mediterranean forms merged and which is sometimes referred to as 'insular'" (Comment I, p. 11).