The British Library's own custodial record of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton MS Nero D.IV, is a repository catalogue entry rather than a scholarly textual study; the atlas records no individual author because a museum's own catalogue record is an institutional rather than an authored work. Its strength is that it is the manuscript's own custodian speaking to its physical description, provenance and condition, an authoritative source for exactly those facts. Its limit is that a catalogue entry is not a substitute for the palaeographic and art historical scholarship on the manuscript's illumination and text, which it does not attempt to be.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the manuscript's own custodian speaking to its physical description, provenance and condition, authoritative for exactly those facts though not a substitute for the palaeographic and art historical scholarship on it. NotesThe British Library's own custodial record of the Lindisfarne Gospels manuscript (Cotton MS Nero D.IV); a repository catalogue entry, not a scholarly textual study.
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PublisherThe British Library
Source Typerepository catalogue
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Textual Witnesses, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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