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English: This Gospel book is representative of a large group of illuminated manuscripts produced during the second half of the twelfth century and possibly in the first decades after the Crusader conquest of Constantinople (1204). Its one surviving miniature has been overpainted in the twentieth century but retains some of its original character. Each Gospel opens with an exuberantly ornamented headpiece. Greek, perhaps seventeenth-century: tooled brown goatskin over grooved boards, with prominent brown calf repairs on exterior of upper and lower covers; many quires fortified with paper at the gutter; raised endbands; paper pastedowns; parchment flyleaf (fol. 1: probably added by Gruel); traced of pins and fastening braids.