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The picture shows folio 61r, which contains a full-page miniature depicting the Ascension. In a mandorla held by two winged angels, Christ ascends into heaven above a multitude of believers.
Gold backgrounds and gold-loaded initials do not merely signal luxury; they create a non-temporal liturgical space. Gold is used to collapse narrative time into eternal liturgical time. The shimmering surfaces echo the abbey's reliquary culture and the cult of St Oswald.
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