Carpet side
Carpet side is the name for a designed cover sheet in medieval Christian, Jewish and Muslim manuscripts . It was mostly provided with ornamental designs, in later centuries also with a representation of a person ( Theodor Gospels ).
A carpet page was usually at the beginning of a section of the manuscript, for example in Gospels before each Gospel .
Orosius manuscript , 7th century, oldest surviving Christian carpet sheet
Leningrad Codex, Jewish carpet sheet
literature
- Robert G. Calkins: Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983, pp. 36f., 53ff.
Web links
Commons : Carpet Pages - collection of images, videos and audio files
