Incipit

The script is an eighth-century Irish minuscule. The original decorated initial has been erased (traces of its interlace can still be seen) and a 'modern' initial Q painted over it as part of a programme of mod More

Titulus in gold and silver on a purple background, beginning 'Hic HIS baptiza/tus est ab Iohan/ne', and relating to a lost miniature of the Baptism of Christ. Image taken from f. 30 of Gospels, imperfect (the ' More

Titulus in gold and silver on a purple background, beginning 'Haec est specio/sa quadriga luci/flua', relating to a lost miniature of the symbols of the Evangelists. Image taken from f. 1v of Gospels, imperfect More

Titulus in gold and silver on a purple background, beginning 'Hic Gabriel an/gelus Zacharie / sacerdoti in / templo d[omi]ni ap/paruit', and relating to a lost miniature of the Annunciation to Zacharias. Image More

Illuminated incipit page for Matthew; 'Liber generationem'. Image taken from f. 14 of Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables (ff. 6v-12), and capitulary More

Incipit page to Luke. Image taken from f. 101v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in th More

Miniature of Evangelist portrait of Luke; incipit page of Luke, 'Quoniam Quidam.' Image taken from ff. 108v-109 of Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables More

Incipit page of Luke's Gospel with illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam quidem), framed by an acanthus border with geometric motifs in four medallions. Image taken from f. 121 of Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with More

Incipit page of John's Gospel with illuminated initials, 'In' (principio erat verbum) and Christ in the centre, framed by an acanthus border with male portrait busts in four medallions. Image taken from f. 192 More

Incipit page of Matthew's Gospel with illuminated initials, 'Li'(ber), framed by an acanthus border with male portrait busts in four medallions. Image taken from f. 15 of Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with pr More

Incipit with red infill, in the Council of Gangra. Image taken from f. 18v of Dionisio-Hadriana. Written in Latin and German. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Th More

Incipit page to John. Image taken from f. 152v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in th More

Incipit page to Matthew. Image taken from f. 22v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in More

Incipit page to Luke. Image taken from f. 101v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in th More

Incipit page of Mark's Gospel with an illuminated initial, 'I'(nitium), framed by an acanthus border. Image taken from f. 79 of Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evan More

Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke. Image ta More

Initial 'I'(nitium) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' foliate border with two medallions with saints holding books (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Mark. Im More

Incipit page to Jerome's prologue to Matthew. Image taken from f. 16v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval More

Inicipit page to Jerome's prologue to the Gospels with saints in roundels. Image taken from f. 2v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers More

Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke, with a s More

Incipit with red infill, in the Council of Gangra. Image taken from f. 18v of Dionisio-Hadriana. Written in Latin and German. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Th More

Incipit page to Matthew. Image taken from f. 18v of Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in More

Puzzle initial 'D'(e sophisticis) and flourished heading, at the beginning of Boethius's translation of De sophisticis elenchis. Image taken from f. 279 of Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with More

Initial 'I'(n principio) with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and two medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at t More

Initial 'L'(iber) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and four medallions with saints holding books and a cross ( More

Beginning text of the third book of Etymologiae, about arithmetic. Title page in: De vocabulo arithmetic disciplinae / Saint Isidorus, Bishop of Seville. In his Etymologiae. [Augustae Vindelicorum] : G. Zainer, More

Explicit page at the end of Mark and the beginning of Luke. Image taken from ff. 223v-224 of Four Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus'). Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a More

Text, in Latin and English, on the mixing of pigments to produce certain colors in oil paint. Illus. in: Theophili, qui et Rugerus, presbyteri et monachi, libri III. de diversis artibus: seu, Diversarum artium More

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