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Canon Table Page

Date

about 1120–1140

Medium

Tempera colors, gold, and silver

Culture

German

Department

Manuscripts

Institution

Getty Museum

As the Latin inscription that curves over the arches--"Incipit canon secundus in quo tres" (Beginning of the second canon in which [there are] three)--explains, this canon table page records parallel stories in three of the four Gospels. At the left, under the image of a man, associated in this context with Saint Matthew, a column of numbers indicates passages in the Gospel of Matthew. Under the central arch, a lion indicates that these numbers refer to passages that record the same event in the Gospel of Mark. At the right, the numbers for the Gospel of Luke are listed under his symbol, a calf.

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