Mac Durnan Gospels
| Mac Durnan Gospels | |
|---|---|
| London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370 | |
Mark 1:1 in the Mac Durnan Gospels | |
| Also known as | Book of Mac Durnan |
| Type | Gospels |
| Date | late 9th century (or early 10th) |
| Place of origin | Ireland |
| Scribe(s) | unknown, possibly Máel Brigte mac Tornáin |
| Material | Parchment |
| Size | 15.8cm x 11.1cm |
| Script | Irish minuscule script |
| Illumination(s) | portraits of the Evangelists |
| Additions | f. 3v: metrical inscription in square capitals |
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The Mac Durnan Gospels or Book of Mac Durnan (London, Lambeth Palace MS 1370) is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book made in Ireland in the 9th or 10th century, a rather late example of Insular art. Unusually, it was in Anglo-Saxon England soon after it was written, and is now in the collection of Lambeth Palace Library in London.
It contains the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, without the usual prefatory matter, and has a full-page evangelist portrait of each. There is an opening quasi-carpet page with the four evangelists' symbols in panels around a cross, and some elaborately decorated incipit pages.