Carpet page

Carpet pages are characterised by mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms.

[2] Carpet pages are characterised by ornamentation with brilliant colors, active lines and complex patterns of interlace.

The earliest surviving example is from the early 7th-century Bobbio Orosius, and relates more closely to Late Antique decoration.

[7] Carpet pages are also found in some medieval Hebrew manuscripts, typically opening the major sections of the book.

Islamic manuscripts, especially Qur'ans, often have pages entirely devoted to complex geometrical decoration, but the term is not usually used of them.