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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Illuminated Manuscripts |
 | | In the Slavic countries, the illuminated manuscripts of the Bulgarian, Russian or Serbian monasteries belong to the Byzantine school, but have also been directly influenced by the Orient, especially by Syria. |
 | | The kinship of these motifs with those found on the barbaric jewels or the stone sculptures of Ireland is evident. |
 | | Although copied in an English monastery it possesses all the characteristics of Irish art; large initials decorated with interlacings and without foliage, the predominance of simple colours (violet, green, yellow, red) absence of gold and silver, portraits of the evangelists similar to those on Byzantine manuscripts. |
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