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Tetraevangelium

850 · 5 pictures

A ninth-century Greek illuminated gospel book, a tetraevangelium, copied in the period's uncial and minuscule script on vellum for liturgical reading. The pictures show bordered text pages with interlace bands in red, green and ochre, a framed monogram panel, and a twisted spiral initial with brown script beside it, offering a designer early medieval ornamental banding and letterform structures to adapt.

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