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| The decorative initial, with its little animal heads and intertwined lines, is actually an anagram or puzzle version of the word IN. Now that we have a colour image you can see the little beastie heads more clearly, and that it is coloured in bold blocks of red, green and yellow. | |
| The Gospels of Maelbrigte, 12th century, Irish (British Library, Harley 1803, f.128) All images by permission of the British Library. These images are made available under a Creative Commons licence. | |
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