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Decorated Text Page

Date

late 13th century

Medium

Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold ink, and ink

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Manuscripts

Institution

Getty Museum

A decorative headpiece frames an inscription identifying the following text as the Gospel of Saint Mark. The anonymous scribe wrote the Greek heading in a stylized display script, employing monograms and abbreviations that are visually pleasing but a bit difficult to decipher. Indeed, a reader of the manuscript transcribed the text in the upper margin in a more easily legible script. Following the large letter *alpha*, the scribe used a minuscule script for the Gospel text.

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