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Description: | Except for service books such as Psalters and Missals, manuscripts like this one--books of the Bible accompanied by extensive glosses--were perhaps the most numerous type of manuscript produced during the 12th century. They encompass not only the biblical text, but a careful selection of the interpretations of a variety of the Church's greatest early thinkers and writers, arranged adjacent to the passage being interpreted. This manuscript was owned in the Middle Ages by the library of York Cathedral.
The usual prologue to the Gospel of Mark is introduced by a 'Channel Style' initial, with tight coils of foliage against a gold ground and a green outer bounding line, typical of English and French manuscripts produced in the decades to either side of the year 1200. Another feature of books written at this time is the pricking in the inner margin | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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