Keywords: LindisfarneFol27rIncipitMatt.jpg Assessments 1 Image LindisfarneFol27rIncipitMatt jpg Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels Incipit to the Gospel of Matthew The main text contains the first sentence of the Gospel According to Saint Matthew Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham The book of the generation of Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham The first line contains the word liber the book with illuminated letters in insular majuscule the first three letter lib are much more ornate than the last two er in white The next two lines are in runic capitals ie latin letter in a rune inspired script also seen in the Book of Nunnaminster for example the first of these lines partially containts the word generationis generation in genitive case as -onis appears in the next line followed by the contracted form of Iesu namely Ihu with a tilde on the h This type of contraction is called a Nomina sacra The last line is in insular majuscule and begins with another Nomina Sacra the contraction χρi with a tilde meaning Christi This is followed by a more compressed series of words The first is filii son genetive with a fi ligature and a letter l with two stacked i letters on its leg Then David is seen and is formed with a letter d with an a stacked on a v in its Counter followed by id After that filii is present again this time however the fi ligature is replaced with the Greek letter phi φ given its name note that son in Greek is υἱός ie unrelated The last word is Abraham which is split into two lines es Evangelios de Lindisfarne http //www bl uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN ASP Size mid IllID 2222 MSID 6469 century 8 Eadfrith of Lindisfarne presumed PD-old-100 Lindisfarne Gospels 710-721 - BL Cotton MS Nero D IV Monograms of the name of Jesus Christ Animal style |