This section contains a marginal note in Latin in the right margin, indicated by its own punctuation mark of a triangular arrangement of three dots. Note also that the scribe Aldred's description of himself as a miserable and unworthy priest is also in Latin, and is followed by a different triangular punctuation mark (perhaps a sort of Anglo-Saxon exclamation mark?) | |
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Lindisfarne Gospels, late 7th century (British Library, Cotton Nero DIV, f.259). From E.G. Millar 1923 The Lindisfarne Gospels London: British Museum. | |
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