Early Medieval Vocabulary

Art based on animal shapes.

• Anamorphic

• Zoomorphic

• Animalistic

A manuscript in the form of a bound book. 

• Scroll

• Folio

• Codex

• Parchment

This is decorative and functional piece of art is known as...

• a clasp

• a fibula

• • Cloisonne'

Match the following

• Cloisonné

• 
• Zoomorphic

• 
• Eadfrith Colophon

• 
• Horror Vaccui

• 
• Animal Style

• 

This __________ __________ used parchment for the pages and most likely was written by a monk in a ___________.

A metalwork technique used to create a surface design or texture. The metal is worked on the front by hammering with punches that depress the metal surface.

• Cloisonné

• Chasing

• Repoussé

• Gilding

before buttons

• zipper

• clasp

• fibula

• fabuloso

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In The Book of Kells, one of its finest pages illuminates the Gospel according to St Matthew, chapter 1, verse 18. The Latin verse begins "Christi autem generatio sic erat" – "this is how Christ came to be born". The page dwells almost entirely on the name of Christ, or rather on its traditional abbreviation into the Greek letters _______ and ______