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current04:41, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 04:41, 4 January 20171,266 × 1,797 (539 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Folio 27r from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne_Gospels" class="extiw" title="en:Lindisfarne Gospels">Lindisfarne Gospels</a>, Incipit to the Gospel of Matthew. The main text contains the first sentence of the Gospel According to Saint Matthew: "Liber generationis Iesu Christi filii David filii Abraham" (The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.) <p>The first line contains the word "liber" (the book) with illuminated letters in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/insular_majuscule" class="extiw" title="en:insular majuscule">insular majuscule</a>, the first three letter (lib) are much more ornate than the last two (er) in white. The next two lines are in runic capitals (ie. latin letter in a rune inspired script, also seen in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Nunnaminster" class="extiw" title="en:Book of Nunnaminster">Book of Nunnaminster</a> for example): the first of these lines partially containts the word "generationis" (generation in genitive case) as "-onis" appears in the next line followed by the contracted form of "Iesu", namely "Ihu" with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tilde" class="extiw" title="en:tilde">tilde</a> on the h. This type of contraction is called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomina_sacra" class="extiw" title="en:Nomina sacra">Nomina sacra</a>. </p> The last line is in insular majuscule and begins with another Nomina Sacra, the contraction "χρi" with a tilde meaning "Christi". This is followed by a more compressed series of words. The first is "filii" (son, genetive) with a fi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligature" class="extiw" title="en:ligature">ligature</a> and a letter "l" with two stacked "i" letters on its leg. Then "David" is seen and is formed with a letter "d" with an "a" stacked on a "v" in its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_(typography)" class="extiw" title="en:Counter (typography)">Counter</a> followed by "id". After that, "filii" is present again, this time however the fi ligature is replaced with the Greek letter phi (φ) given its name (note that son in Greek is υἱός, ie. unrelated). The last word is "Abraham" which is split into two lines.
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