History
Due to Viking raids the monastic community left Lindisfarne in around 875, bringing with them Cuthbert’s body, relics, and books including the Lindisfarne Gospels (BBC Tyne 2012) and the St Cuthbert Gospel. It is estimated that after around seven years the Lindisfarne community settled in the Priory at Chester-le-Street in Durham where they stayed until 995 (where Aldred would have done his interlinear translation of the text) (Backhouse 2004). After Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the manuscript was separated from the priory (Backhouse 2004). In the early 17th century the Gospels were owned by Sir Robert Cotton (1571–1631) and in 1753 became part of the founding collections of the British Museum in 1753 (Chilvers 2004).
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