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Augustinus

1100 · 8 pictures

A manuscript of Augustine's writings, copied around 1100, probably for a monastic or cathedral readership, and now held in Swiss collections. The four pictures are pen-drawn initials built from scrolling tendrils, knotted bands and foliate knobs, outlined in grey ink and touched with red, with the scroll-and-band structure offering designers a model for interlace lettering and ornamental borders.

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