The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 482
ifth centuryof our era. Admitting that time destroys all, and also that the work of therude tribes on many occasions assisted this natural cause of destruction, wemust not forget that at certain periods, to supply the place of new parch-ment when it was scarce, a plan had been devised of making… … Fig-. 328.—Miniature of the Ninth Century, representing-an Evangelist who is transcribing- with the Calamus.on Parchment, the Sacred Text, of which he is receiving the revelation.(Bibl. de Bourgogne, Brussels.) PARCHMENT AND PAPER. for a similar purpose, either by scraping and rubbing them with…
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