Three copies of the Codex Amiatinus were produced in Latin calligraphy at the monastery. Two stayed at Wearmouth and Jarrow and in AD716, the third left for Rome with Abbot Ceolfrith and his ...

the Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery around the year 700 and was taken to Italy as a gift for Pope Gregory II. The look and feel of the Monk Cell has been inspired by an image in the Codex.

Its star attraction is a replica of the Codex Amiatinus, the world’s earliest surviving Latin Bible, ... Extended Jarrow Hall Unlimited passes, which are valid until April 2018, ...

A ROYAL visitor unveiled a new exhibition which has been created around religious relics gifted to a north museum. Last year, representatives from Jarrow Hall travelled to Abbadia San Salvatore ...

The Duke of Gloucester, who is a first cousin to The Queen, was taken on a tour of Jarrow Hall and shown a display of the replica Codex Amiatinus; the earliest surviving complete manuscript of the ...

The full launch of a rejuvenated heritage site will take place this weekend – 14 months after it closed through financial difficulties. The former Bede’s World site in Jarrow is devoted to the ...

A replica bible which took 10 years to create was blessed in Jarrow on the 1,300th anniversary of it;s original departure for Rome. News you can trust since 1873. Sign In. Subscribe.

The only full-sized replica in the world of a Bible created more than 1,000 years ago is returning to its home in South Tyneside. "It's an authoritative statement and it's the best version you can ...

Written in the monastic scriptorium in the 7th Century, the Codex Amiatinus was one of three single volume bibles made at Wearmouth-Jarrow. Made by monks under the direction of Abbot Ceolfrith ...