Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel book
Armenia, Van, 1461
MS M.749 fol. 152r

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Square-shaped headpiece with polylobed niche decorated with floreate and geometric pattern, and surmounted by pair of birds flanking vessel (cropped).
Below, winged ox, as Symbol of Evangelist Luke, holding book and turning back to bite itself, forms part of initial and incipit for Luke 1:1 written in display script.
In right margin, ornament of foliage (partly cropped).