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Summary
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English:
A simple Celtic knot with doubled threads. The design is taken from an ornament in the Lindisfarne Gospels,
fol. 211r
, where it appears at the base of the
P
of
principium
in the opening phrase of the Gospel of John,
IN Principium erat uerbum
.
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| Source | Own work |
| Author | User:Melian |
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For a simple "single-stranded" version of this basic pattern (formed from straight lines and circular arcs, and fitting exactly within an equilateral triangle), see File:Three-figure8-knot triang2.svg |
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