Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the Italian manuscripts are an eleventh century Gospel, painted for Mathildsa of Tuscany; a twelfth century Martyrology; and a fifteenth century Missal of the North Italian school, executed at Ferrara...
...Life of Christ of the twelfth century shows rather crude but effective paintings suggesting the technique of the earliest painted glass...
There are three Flemish manuscripts; a Psalter dating from the late twelfth century characterized by somewhat bold and rough drawing; a beautiful little thirteenth century Psalter, probably executed for a lady named Katherine, showing delicately executed pictures, of which the full-page miniatures are on grounds of burnished gold; and a Book of Hours by the Masters of the famous "Grimace Breviary" now preserved in St. Mark's Library, Venice...
Among the works of the English school are a Book of Gospels dating from about 700, written in good on vellum dyed purple; a thirteenth century Life of Christ; and twelfth century Bestiary. The so-called Bestiaries, or Handbooks of Natural History, formed a large and interesting class of manuscripts, "often illustrated profusely, especially during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with colored drawings of beasts, birds and fishes, actual or fabulous; more rarely with fully illuminated miniatures in gold and colors". In Mr. Morgan's manuscript the animals are colored blue, brown or red, shading into white. The miniatures...
...Divinity School, sixth, with 51.7; the Bussey Institute, seventh, with exactly 50 percent; the Medical School, eighth, with 47.7; Harvard College, ninth, with 42.5; the special students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tenth, with 41.1; the Engineering School, eleventh, with 31.7; and the Dental School, twelfth and last, with 29.1 percent...