Gailearaí

Túslitreacha Soilsithe

Tá go leor lámhscríbhinní meánaoiseacha lán le ceannlitreacha maisithe a thagann i ngach stíl agus méid. Ach cad é an cuspóir a bhí acu? Léigh in [**ár mblag**]( https://www.europeana.eu/blog/lighting-the-way-how-illuminated-initials-guided-medieval-readers-through-books)!

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Gailearaí foilsithe

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St. Stephen I (pope)

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A Levite sacrificing

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St. Hildegundis

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Emperor

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Ministry of Culture

Saint Ambroise, bust, in the letter D

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Moses holding the Tables of the Law

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A male saint (St. Philip?) holding a lance or spear

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The Crucifixion, with Mary and St. John

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St. Fabian, Bishop of Rome, holding a book and St. Sebastian holding a book

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Ministry of Culture

The historiated letter B, with Saint Michael fighting the dragon

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Christ calling André and Simon in an initial A

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National Library of Romania

Biblia S. Novi Testamenti Cum Interpretatione S. Hieronymi Nominum Hebraicorum

Capitalband rupt.

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E-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 3 : Biblia latina (Vulgata), Part 1: Genesis to Psalms

Latin Bible, designed as a pandect (i.e. in one volume), following the recension of Alcuin of York. Several copies of these Alcuin Bibles, manufactured in the scriptorium of St. Martin of Tours, have survived; with their finely graded hierarchy of scripts…