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In the British Library, Cotton MS Nero D IV.
Written in honour of St. Cuthbert (d. 687) and illuminated in the finest style of the Northumbrian Anglo-Celtic school. Contains the Gospels, with interlinear Anglo-Saxon translation added in the 9th century.
This is folio 34v which is from Matthew's Gospel. The setting is the Sermon on the Mount. Folio 34 v continues from folio 34r with the Beatitudes. The page ends part-way through chapter 5 verse 10.
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