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 512
e beginning of the Middle Ages. The sixth and seventh centuries have left us no books with miniatures ;the utmost we find at that period are some capital letters embellished bycaligraphy. In the eighth century, on the contrary, the ornaments were MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. 445 multiplied, and some… … was reformed, and the style of painting manuscripts assumed something ofthe form of the fine antique examples still extant at that period. (Fig. 350.) 4+6 MINIATURES IN MANUSCRIPTS. ) If we would have an idea of the heaviness and theungraceful character of the writing and of the ornamentswhich…
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