Key Information
Register:
NationalYear of Inscription:
2023Type of Heritage:
ManuscriptNominating Institution:
Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
The Augustine Gospels
The Augustine Gospels provide a tangible connection to the earliest days of the Anglo-Saxon church in Britain. Created in the late 6th Century in Italy, it is reputed to have been sent with St Augustine on a mission from Pope Gregory the Great to convert the English.
The text contains the four gospels, and, at the instruction of Pope Gregory, was illustrated specifically to accommodate those who couldn’t read. It has been in continuous use for more than a millennium and is one of the oldest items inscribed on the Memory of the World UK Register.
