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Colophon decoration

Simple decorative devices, such as dots, commas, ivy leaves (hedera), or box surrounds, which serve to highlight the colophon.

Simple decorative devices, such as dots, commas, ivy leaves (hedera), or box surrounds, which serve to highlight the colophon. Such decoration is found in antiquity and Early Christian manuscripts.

  • Portuguese:
    decoração do colofão

Michelle Brown. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994).