Reddit reviews The Lindisfarne Gospels

Oh, isn't that wonderful! I have yet to do a study of that myself. To be honest I am a little afraid of spending too long in the Gothic hands as I fear I would have very little company in my local society—I've already made my wife a calligraphy widow, don't want to make my friends gothic widows/widowers to boot. :P

Pity about the Koch book; I'll keep my eyes peeled and let you know if I come across anything worth looking for. In the meanwhile I have lots to keep me busy between researching Romans and some books I received as late birthday presents—most notably The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan and The Lindisfarne Gospels - A Masterpiece of Book Painting by Janet Backhouse (not to be confused with the larger _The Lindisfarne Gospels ... also by Janet Backhouse ... sigh) as well as Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Illuminated Manuscripts ... and I also got a (used) copy of Ann Camps "Pen Lettering" which is somewhat more of a beginner's book, but is still interesting and methodical.

I have a giant stack of books to read and never enough time to read them. :P

The nice thing about producing works of the same size with the intent of binding later is that you don't have to worry about the binding just yet. It's obviously going to be something relatively simple since you are not making folios or octavos or anything—you just need to find a bookbinding guild and meet someone that is willing to do it for you, or learn how to do it yourself. ;)

No worries. I don't always trust wikipedia anyway:-)

According to Janet Backhouse's Lindisfarne Gospels four men are named in the colophon as contibutors: Eadfridth of Lindisfarne wrote it, one bound it, one provided gold ornaments, and Aldred provided the gloss.

I can recommend the previously quoted book as well as Michelle P. Brown's Painted Labyrinth.

I got these book at a ridiculously cheap price from amazon. I noticed the last book is still available at bottom price...