MacRegol Gospels or Rushworth Gospels, Ireland, 8th century. MacRegol was Abbot of Birr, died 822. Initial Q and letters (Q)uoniam from the Gospel of St Luke 1, angular letters from Mark 2, text 3, Fuit homo 4, scribe's name Macregol dipinxit, 5, alphabet 6, and entries by glossers Farmen and Owen. Chromolithograph after an illustration by John Obadiah Westwood from his own Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria, being a series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, William Smith, London, 1843.

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