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Alphabets appears artist autograph BASIL RINGROSE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS beautiful Miniatures binding bound British Museum brown morocco Calendar Calendario calf calligraphy camaieu capitals catalogue character Christ circa A.D. codex collection containing copy Crassier curious decorated Drawings early edition enclosed English engraved erthe escutcheon executed exquisite facsimiles fifteenth century figures folio French gilt edges gode gold and colours Guiron handwriting HORE BEATE MARIE illuminated in gold Illuminated Manuscript illustrated initial letters interlaced Irish Italian JEAN DE MEUNG John Latin leaves lines Lizard Lighthouse Lord Lydgate magnificent Manuscript on Vellum Missal numerous oak boards olive morocco original ornamented painted Paris plates poem portrait prayer printed red morocco extra remarkable Roman Saints scribe small 4to small folio small Miniatures Spanish specimen Stradanus style Talbot uncial Utrecht Psalter valuable velvet verse Visigothic vols volume WILLIAM SOMERS woodcut words written zour
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Seite 82 - SACRA PICTORIA: being a Series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, executed between the Fourth and Sixteenth Centuries. Royal 4to, with 50 beautifully Illuminated Plates, half-bound morocco, .£3 IM.
Seite 81 - SILVESTRE'S UNIVERSAL PALEOGRAPHY; or, A Collection of Facsimiles of the Writings of every Age. Containing upwards of 300 large and beautifully executed Facsimiles, taken from Missals and other MSS., richly Illuminated in the finest style of art. A New Edition, arranged under the direction of Sir F. MADDEN, Keeper of MSS., Brit.
Seite 81 - AND OTHER MSS., RICHLY ILLUMINATED IN THE FINEST STYLE OF ART, new and improved edition, arranged under the direction of Sir FREDERICK MADDEN, Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, 2 vols, atlas folio, elegantly half bound morocco extra, gilt edges, £31.
Seite 67 - THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BURNS AND CLARINDA, with a Memoir of Mrs. McLehose (Clarinda), arranged and edited by her Grandson, WC McLehose, sm. 8vo. illustrated copy in brown morocco, uncut, gilt top, £30. Edinburgh, 1843 A most interesting copy, in which are inserted the following— BURNS' autograph verses to Clarinda, beginning "Fair Empress of the Poet's soul," finishing with a fourth stanza which does not appear in printed editions.
Seite 78 - The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages : An Account of the development and progress of the art of illumination, as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation, from the ivth to the xviith centuries.
Seite 51 - Facing this miniature is a page of equal beauty, the centre . being a richly designed D, within which is a miniature of the Nativity, the border painted with cameos on black ground, heads of female saints, flowers, angels, &c. 3. The letter D, within which is depicted the Visitation of St. Elizabeth, with fine half border. 4, 5...
Seite 75 - This learned writer also tells us, that " at a period, when the fine arts may be said to have been almost extinct in Italy and other parts of the Continent — namely, from the fifth to the end of the eighth century — a style of art had been established and cultivated in Ireland, absolutely distinct from that of all other parts of the civilized world.
Seite 19 - ... of designs without any text beyond the legends which are subjoined to the figures] " in the Library of the Arsenal at Paris, contains 160 slightly coloured pen-drawings which recall in many respects the manner of Taddeo, and are remarkable for simplicity and dignity of composition, and for graceful motives. In the heads, especially, we observe a delicate and individual character.
Seite 82 - ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE, copied from select MSS. of the Middle Ages, 4to.
Seite 75 - Manuscripts has, indeed, brought out the singular fact, at a period when the Fine Arts may be said to have been almost extinct in Italy and other parts of the Continent — namely, from the fifth to the end of the eighth century — a style of art had been established...