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New Testament (with Canons of Priscillian)

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A twelfth-century illuminated manuscript of the New Testament, likely made in England and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, written for church or monastic readers. Its pictures show large historiated initials with interlaced foliage, pen-drawn figures, and red and blue rubrics on vellum, offering a designer examples of medieval decorative lettering and border ornament.

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