Ornaments
The text is accompanied by an incredibly complex engineering drawings in the creation of a full page, as well as in the text itself is often found little artistic ornaments. The book uses a broad palette of colors, the most frequently purple, lilac, red, pink, green, yellow. (For illustrations of the Book of Darrou, by contrast, uses only four inks). Surprisingly, given the overall luxury of the book, but it was not used silver and gold. Pigments used to make ink, imported from almost all over Europe, and the most rare and expensive - blue lapis lazuli - was brought from Afghanistan.
The quantity and quality of images far superior to all other remaining «island» Gospel. Remained ten full-figures, including two portraits of the evangelists, three pages with the four symbols of the evangelists, the page with the monogram of the name of Christ, the Virgin and Child miniature, miniature reigned Christ, the miniature to the arrest of Christ and the Temptation of Christ. Also in the book survived 13 full pages of decorated text including pages from the first few words of each Gospel. On many pages the book is decorated with only a portion of the text. Eight out of ten pages with canonical tables lavishly decorated with patterns, not adorned with only two pages. It is likely that the book had other pages with miniatures, now lost. In addition to the main pages of the thumbnail, the book has a huge number of small ornaments and decorations throughout the text, for example, the initial letters.
The present part begins with a manuscript leaf from a fragment of a list of Jewish names. This piece is one column, right-first-page sheet. Another column that employs a miniature sheet with the symbols of the four Evangelists, now almost erased. Miniature located so that the book you want to turn 90 degrees to see her in the right position. Symbols of the four evangelists - is a visual theme found throughout the book. They are almost always pictured together to demonstrate unity of message to the four Gospels.
Unity emphasizes the four Gospels in canonical table decorations Evseviy. They themselves have served to emphasize the unity of the Gospels, allowing the reader to find similar places of the Gospels. Canonical table Evseviy normally required for its deployment of twelve pages. Creators Kellskoy book originally expected, and place them on 12 pages (sheets 1v to 7r), but, for unknown reasons, uzhali of up to 10 pages, leaving the sheets 6v and 7r empty. This shrinkage has led to a table can not be used. Decorations first eight pages of canonical tables clearly felt the influence of the early books of the Gospels, created in the Mediterranean. Arches decorate the tables were very common tradition (cf. London canonical tables). Creators Kellskoy books also made it, but in his island spirit. Arch depicted not as architectural elements, but rather as a stylized geometric patterns made with the use of Celtic motifs. Symbols of the four evangelists occupy the space above and under the arches. The last two tables are depicted in the canonical grid for the first time found in the Book of Darrou.
Balance the books after the canonical table is divided into sections. Start each part of said thumbnail and full pages of decorated text. Each of the Gospels is preceded by numerous illustrations. Presentation is considered as a separate part and it is preceded by lavishly decorated turn. In addition to the introductory part and the Gospel, «Second Home» Gospel of Matthew also decorated initial illustrations.