St Cuthbert Gospel - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Apart from being usually on display at the British Museum and British Library (see above), the book has been in the following exhibitions ( * denotes that there was a detailed published catalogue):

• 1862, Victoria & Albert Museum, Loan Exhibition
• 1930, Victoria & Albert Museum, Medieval English Art *
• 1987, Durham Cathedral Treasury, An exhibition of manuscripts brought together at Durham to celebrate the saint's 1300th anniversary and the work of his early community
• 1991, British Museum, The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600–900 *
• 1996, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Treasures from the Lost Kingdom of Northumbria
• 1997, British Museum, The Heirs of Rome: The Shaping of Britain AD 400–900, part of the series The Transformation of the Roman World Ad 400–900 *
• 2003, British Library, Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels *
• 2007, British Library, Sacred: Discover What We Share