 Liber aureus, "The Golden Book of the Pfäfers," Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen, Cod. Fab. 2, fol. 8v Image used by permission of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (Graz, Austria). For more information about the facsimiles produced by the Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, visit their website at www.adeva.com. This page contains an illumination of the evangelist Luke facing a page containing two passages from Luke's gospel (a reading for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin). Note the ox, the symbol of Luke, in the upper right corner. This page may also give us some indication of the practice of the scriptorium, with Luke pictured holding a pen and one hand and a scraper (for erasing ink from parchment) in the other.
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