Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel Book
Switzerland, Saint Gall, between 880 and 899
MS M.1 fol. 112r

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Initial F 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 Luke, "Fuit in diebus Herodis regis Iudee sacerdos quidam nomine Zacharias de vice Abia."