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The picture shows the opening page of St Luke from an unfinished manuscript, a Gospel Book from St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. Unfinished manuscripts give an idea of the sequence of illuminating an initial. The design has been drawn in pencil and then inked over in preparation for painting. The rubricator has filled in the opening words of the text in alternately red and dark blue letters, following guide words still faintly visible at the top right. A note for the scribe is in the upper margin, 'scribatur Lucas': 'Lucas is to be written'.
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