Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel Book
Switzerland, Saint Gall, between 880 and 899
MS M.1 fol. 14r

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Initial L decorated with interlace and abstract ornament as part of full-page incipit in gold letters on purple background; all within frame decorated with abstract ornament. Beginning of Matthew, "Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham"