Decoration: The ornamentation is simple and of two colors, green and red, or perhaps three when the rubricator (or scribe) leaves portions of the decoration blank. The major section divisions have ornamental headpieces of twisted two-ply rope like patterns with points at the intersection of the twists. Each section heading and each pericope has a decorated initial outlined in red and filled with red, green, or left void. Those at the beginning of sections are larger and far more floriated than those opening the readings. A distinctive decorative ornament is the filling of certain closed, or nearly closed, letters with a blob of red ink.
Origin: Dionysiou Monastery, Mt. Athos, Greece.