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Hiberno-Saxon

(Also known as the Insular style). A style of art, especially of manuscript illumination, developed in the monastic scriptoria of Ireland and the British Isles ca. 600–900 CE. A distinctive feature of the Hiberno-Saxon style is the use of interlacing, zoomorphic forms. See: animal style.

Page from the Book of Durrow (folio 192v). Ink and pigments on vellum. Ca. 680 CE. Trinity College Library, Dublin.

 

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