Initial letters, borders, columns and Celtic interlacing from documents of the Carolingian dynasty, 8th and 9th century. Taken from the Ada Gospels, illuminated manuscripts, Gospel books, etc. 1 MS Latin 9388, 2-4 manuscrit Latin 5, 6 Livre des Evangiles, 7-10 Entrelaces celtiques d’un MS Latin 1203, 11-13 Codex aureus d’Ada, soeur de Charlemagne, conserve a Treves. Chromolithograph designed and lithographed by Ernst Guillot from Elements d’Ornementation pour l’Enluminure (Elements of Ornamentation for Illumination), Renouard, Paris, 1890.

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