The word "Anglo-Saxon" is a convenient one to use, and is supported by various ancient authorities; for example in a manuscript Benedictional (in the library of Corpus College, Cambridge) England is called "Regnum Anglo-Saxonum," and the English king is entitled "Rex Anglorum vel Saxonum."
This splendid manuscript is in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire; a good description of it, with engravings of all its miniatures, is published in Archæologia, Vol. XXIV. 1832, pp. 1 to 117, and a coloured copy of one of the miniatures is given by Westwood, Irish Manuscripts, Plate 45.
The library of Trinity College, Cambridge, possesses a book of the Gospels which in style is very similar to the Benedictional of Aethelwold.
The Gospels of Lothaire are in Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 266.
This is one of the latest examples of the use of vellum dyed with the murex purple; the purple grounds occasionally used in fifteenth century manuscripts are usually produced by laying on a coat of opaque purple pigment.