Interlace Decoration and the Influence of the North on Mozarabic Illumination
Jacques Guilmain
The unusual character of Mozarabic manuscripts has long been interest to archaeologists, art historians, and paleographers. codices made between the late eighth first half ninth centuries are sparsely decorated with simple designs such as two-ribbon plaits heart-shaped leaflets.1 ornamentation a Bible in monastery La Cava dei Tirreni latter century interpreted an isolated example Spanish workmanship reflecting strong Carolingian influence.2 Studies their scripts make it possible distinguish three classes dating from end onward; these groups Andalusian Toledan works, group territories no longer under Moorish rule, Leon-Castile.3 We will concern ourselves here only some this last region.4
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