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...periodic rediscovery of the Treasure Room at Widener reveals penmanship so regular as to be almost inhuman, on yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during...
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...
Quarto. Bound in white vellum cloth, gold stamped. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $20.00. Special price...
Reproduced in gold and colors on vellum paper after original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Royal 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London...
...SERMON ON THE MOUNT. Reproduced in gold and colors on vellum paper after original illuminated drawings by Alberto Sangorski. Royal 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Chatto and Windus, London...