For example, the form of the decorated letters found in the incipit pages for the Gospels is surprisingly consistent in Insular Gospels.
Evangelion with Synaxarion and tables for Holy Days by month and tables for incipits of the Gospels and Apostles.
The ancient sources give a hint to this, in so far as they mention, for instance, that the earliest translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics was made for him.[26] Also, the incipit of the well-known Theology of Aristotle claims that he acted as the revisor of this work, in fact an adapted translation of parts of Plotinus' Enneads IV VI.
On the writing desk of the evangelists, the incipit of the corresponding Gospel is cast in fine minuscule, which is significant for the dating.
Morse botched his opening lines, the incipit of what he unhesitatingly characterizes as "the worst show in the history of American theatre".
An expurgated version of Wilde's letter was published in 1905 with the title, De profundis, which is the incipit of the 130th Psalm in Latin, 'From the depths I cry to thee, O Lord'.
The end of the text in a medieval manuscript was announced by the word explicit, probably a reshaping (after incipit) of an earlier Latin phrase such as explicitum est volumen ("the book has been completely unrolled"), itself a reminder of the scroll form of the book used in the West before the codex format was adopted about ad 300.
Precious manuscripts traditionally exhibit a miniature at the incipit of the text or/and at the beginning of each section.
74r 86r, with the exception of texts De coloribus; De emplastro; Ad cruas faciendas on f. 77r as these are not found in any other manuscript), and (ii) Sélestat, Bibliothèque Humaniste, 17, with the exception of the text on f. 37r, the incipit of which reads: Corpus hominis (an excerpt from Homo bene figuratus by Vitruvius).
Compare, for example, the incipit pages of the Gospel of Matthew in the Lindisfarne Gospels and in the Book of Kells, both of which feature intricate decorative knot work patterns inside the outlines formed by the enlarged initial letters of the text.
