Otho-Corpus Gospels

The extant fragments show that the manuscript was decorated in much the same style as other Insular Gospel Books.

The letters "INI" are formed into a large monogram decorated with red and yellow knotwork.

Folio 27 recto (see illustration at left) in the British Library, which is one of the best preserved pages of this manuscript, contains the image of the lion of Mark.

A copy of a page of the prefatory material for Mark was made in 1725 for the Earl of Oxford, and used by Thomas Astle for his book The Origin and Progress of Writing, which was published in 1784.

Farther down the page there is a second set of capitals in a different style which are surrounded by a block of small red dots.