![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the full-page miniature for John’s lesson, small illuminated initials featuring the Evangelist and his symbol mark each of the other Gospel excerpts. John begins the sequence, since rather than following the order of the first four books of the New Testament, the lessons highlight the readings for four major feast days of the liturgical year, starting with John’s text, “In principio erat verbam,” “In the beginning was the word,” read on Christmas Day. This image, like others in the book of hours, helped a reader to navigate her way through the text. This miniature opens the Gospel Lessons by depicting John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos writing his Gospel.
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