Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel Book
England, Canterbury, 1000-1020
MS M.869. Fol. 013v

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Above canon table Christ, cross-nimbed, beardless, with open book in right hand and cross-staff in left hand,. stands with right foot on lion and left foot on basilisk, flanked by two angels, each nimbed, wearing fillet, one with hands outstreteched, and the other holding scroll case in left hand and scroll in right hand.
Inscription flanking Christ, SINGVL(IS) P(RO)PRIAE.