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==Illumination== The manuscript has three full-page drawings, and a number of decorated initials in typical [[Insular style]]. Folio 32v shows the [[four Evangelists]]' symbols in compartments in ink, the eagle of John resembling that of the [[Book of Dimma]]. Elsewhere yellow, red, blue and green are used.<ref>Mitchell, George Frank, ''Treasures of Irish art, 1500 B.C.-1500 A.D.: from the collections of the National Museum of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College, Dublin (etc)'', Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977, {{ISBN|0394428072}}, 9780394428079, No. 43, p. 143, with f.43v illustrated on a full page shortly before. [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/113771/rec/1020 Fully online (PDF) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art]</ref>
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