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Description: | The books of the Bible had received standardised sets of glosses (interpretations and explanations) during the 12th-century, and these continued to be copied and studied in the 13th century. As is typical in such books, the biblical text is written in larger, more formal, script and the gloss is written in smaller script to either side and between the lines. This volume containing the glossed Gospels forms part of a set which was owned by the 'Preaching Friars' (i.e. Dominicans) of London: they were established in about 1221 at Holborn, and moved to Ludgate in about 1275.
The historiated initial of the prologue to Mark contains an image of Mark, and his symbol, the winged lion. In the right-hand margin is a guide to the illuminator: a faint sketch of a winged lion. | 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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