Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel Book
Switzerland, Saint Gall, between 880 and 899
MS M.1 fol. 168r

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Initial I decorated with interlace and abstract ornament and part of frame containing full-page incipit in gold letters on purple background. Beginning of John, "In principio erat verbum et verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat verbum. Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. Omnia per ipsum facta sunt."