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MEDIEVAL ART -  silver crescent (award for service)

Inspired by the Lindisfarne (or Cuthbert) Gospels, 7th-8th centuries Ireland. An illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Latin language produced around 715–720  with some aditions in the 10th century, in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland. Considered one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements, it now resides in the British Library in London.

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