Monk, scribe, illuminator, bishop, in Lindisfarne, Northumbria. Pupil of St Cuthbert. The Lindisfarne Gospels : Three plates in colour and thirty-six in monochrome from Cotton MS. Nero D. IV in the ...

The name coble has been in use for at least a thousand years, the earliest reference occurring in the Lindisfarne Gospels. Over the centuries its design appears to have evolved to create a vessel ...