Canons title page
Description
The page contains an illumination where the circular decorative band is depicted. This is defined from both the inside and the outside by a golden frame, which intersects along the directrices of the vertical and horizontal diameter . It thus creates four circles , placed in the decorative band. In each of them half the figure of an Evangelist is portrayed against a blue background . The portraits of the four Evangelists don ‘t have individual characterizations, therefore Matthew is recognizable thanks to the name engraved on top, the others, instead, can be identified thanks to their initials: Mark on the left, Luke on the right and John at the bottom below. Each is connoted for the halo, for the cover of the golden book and for the singular gesture with which they raise their right arm . In the space between one circle and the other , some black, orange, indigo and pink circles can be recognized.In the centre of this picture it is written in Greek : “Structure of the canon of the concordance of the gospels”