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Augustinus

1100 · 2 pictures

A manuscript of Augustine's writings, probably made around 1100 in a monastic scriptorium and now held by a Swiss library, with the text in black ink and red initials. Both pictures show large decorated initial letters in red ink, filled with interlaced knotwork, scrolls and spiral tendrils with small round terminals, which a designer could use as a model for medieval ornamental lettering and interlace patterns.

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