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 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 ...

Codex Amiatinus Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence In 716 A.D., monks at the Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery in the medieval Northumbria Kingdom located in present-day northern England, crafted ...

The Queen’s cousin has unveiled a special new exhibition marking a historic link between South Tyneside and Italy.

South Tyneside youngsters are creating new chapters to one of history's most influential books produced in the region 13 centuries ago.

Codex Amiatinus, pictured, was made in a monastery in Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria, in the early 8th Century and gifted to a pope in the year 716, according to the British Library.

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 ...