Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel Book
Switzerland, Saint Gall, between 880 and 899
MS M.1 fol. 72r

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Cross surmounting initial I decorated with interlace and abstract ornament, as part of frame enclosing full-page incipit in gold letters on purple background. Beginning of Mark, "Initium evangelii Iesu Christi filii Dei sicut scriptum est in Esaia propheta ecce mitto angelum meum."