The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . l letterslike the text. Each Gospel also has with the titlesimilar letters in gold the names of the symbols :F, IHS, XPS, Mathaeus homo, Marcus leo,^f? Lucas vitulus, *i* Johannis (sic] aquila. Thecolophons and some of the titles are in large andfanciful slender capitals, red and black. The titlesand colophons of the Eusebian tables are also inthe same fanciful Westwood gives us more details. He says : The text of the Gospels is continued throughout,without any illuminated capitals to t
The golden days of the early English church : from the arrival of Theodore to the death of Bede . l letterslike the text. Each Gospel also has with the titlesimilar letters in gold the names of the symbols :F, IHS, XPS, Mathaeus homo, Marcus leo,^f? Lucas vitulus, *i* Johannis (sic] aquila. Thecolophons and some of the titles are in large andfanciful slender capitals, red and black. The titlesand colophons of the Eusebian tables are also inthe same fanciful Westwood gives us more details. He says : The text of the Gospels is continued throughout,without any illuminated capitals to the severaldivisions, the first letter of each verse rather largerthan the text, and coloured with patches of red,green, etc. The letters of the Latin text are quitesimilar to, but smaller than, those of the Book ofKells, the Gospels of St. Chad, of Mac Regol, etc. ;the d is either uncial or minuscule, the f, p, q with short tails below the lines; the r eithercapital or shaped like n; the s also eithercapital or like f, the top elevated above the line. 1 Thompson, op. cit. 15. seciiucltnnhiarm. OKXAMEXTAL LMIIAI. LETTER OF ST. LURES GOSPEL IN THE MS. [7W. III., facing p. 112. THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS 113 The letters at the end of the lines are oftensingularly conjoined for want of Thewhole or part of the first word in each of the variouscapitals in the volume is formed of ornamentalletters. The first page of each Gospel (and inSt. Matthew, also of the Liber generationis ) andof the first preface of St. Jerome, is in large lettersof most elaborate patterns, with borders, On the subject of the illustrations I findmyself differing from those who have written onthe book. It seems to me quite plain that these ornamentalletters and the illuminations generally were thehandiwork of more than one artist, and consist ofthree quite different types of ornament. One ofthese classes, constituting the great portion of thebook, is of unmistakably Irish work, and must,
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