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Canon Table Page

Date

late 13th century

Medium

Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold ink, and ink

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Manuscripts

Institution

Getty Museum

In the early Byzantine period Eusebius of Caesarea (about 263-about 340), a bishop and church historian, developed canon tables based on a system for indexing passages that related the same events in more than one of the four Gospels. In this Gospel book, the artist wrote each table in gold ink and surrounded it with an architectural frame. The fantastic decoration on these pages emphasizes the importance of the reader's exploration of scripture and the preciousness of the Gospel book.

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