Initial A This initial is a fine example of Romanesque initial decoration. The intricate interlaced pattern of the white vine-scroll harbors a male figure in the lower compartment climbing up the tendrils of the stylized vines toward a lion in the upper compartment grazing, as it were, on the stylized foliage. The head of a beast at the top of the letter threatens to swallow the whole composition. Such... This cutting has been dated to ca. 1130. Script: Transitional script (praegothica)
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