Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Four Gospels From the Munich Ms. (Q) Now Numbered Lat. 6224 in the Royal Library at Munich: With a Fragment From St. John in the Hof-Bibliothek at Vienna (Cod. Lat. 502)
As regards the colours used for the capital letters and the initial sen tences of the Gospels, green, brown, vermilion and crimson are the only colours employed throughout the ms.; with the exception of the bro'wn they have all lasted well, though occasionally they have come off on to the opposite page.
The largest and most representative piece of ornamentation is on fol. 202 b, the page which originally ended the ms., and which contains the subscription of the scribe. A large cross occupies the middle of the page, and extends down the greater part of its length it is divided by a vertical line along the upright part of the cross, and by a horizontal line running along the cross-beams, and one side of the cross is painted crimson, the other brown a large number of oblong and lozenge-shaped ornaments, apparently meant to represent jewels, are let into the cross, and these are painted green in the head of the cross is placed the half-length portrait of a man, evidently intended for the scribe himself, and on the two arms are seated birds, while hanging from these arms are the A on the one side, the 9. On the other. In the centre of the cross is written 'ego ualerianus scripsi.' Silvestre notices that the signature of a scribe.
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