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 559
or parchment, in wax, ink, or colour.We are shown, in museums, plates of copper or of cedar-wood, coveredwith characters carved or cut out in them, which seem to have been 486 PRINTING. intended for the purpose of printing, and which resemble the block platesof the fifteenth century. Something very… … Fig. 387.—Ancient Wood-block Print, cut in Flanders before 1440, representing Jesus Christ after hisFlagellation. (Delbecqs Collection, Ghent.) throwing together, indiscriminately, innumerable forms of letters of thealphabet, either in gold or in any other substance, one can print with…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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