This section has a mysterious little hash mark, or two letters i crossed out, in the last line between erat and lux. Is this also a correction? |
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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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