Summary of the Law, in golddetails

Summary of the Law, in gold

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A full-page setting of a biblical quote, with a gilt (gold) page background and red, blue, green, black inks, with scrollwork, a border with crowned seraphs at the codners, and a sidebar in a frame and with a heading reminiscent of Victorian gothic revival architeture.

The large writing is in a blackletter style, sometimes called Church Blacletter or Gothic, but it is engraved, not printed from movable type.

The large writing here is the Summary of the Law:

The two quoted sentences are from Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18

In the first century, as now, the Jewish people in Palestine were particularly unpleasant to their neighbours. back then it wsa the Samaritans. So underlying the text here was the idea that the people of the time did not follow the principle behind their laws.

The sidebar gives the ten commandments, a commonly-quoted passage that is not in fact referred to by the main passage, and was long since superseded.

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