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 560
ssed by the ancients were carved in box-wood or ivory ; but they wereonly employed for teaching children to read, as Quinctilian testifies in his PRINTING. 487 Oratorical Institutions, and St. Jerome in his Epistles. There wasthen only wanting a fortunate chance to cause this carved alphabet to… … Fig. 388.—Fac-simile ot an Engraving on Wood, by an ancient Flemish Engraver (about 1438); whichwas inserted, after the manner of a Miniature, in a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, containingPrayers for the use of the People. (Delbecqs Collection, Ghent.) which was only the perfection to which…
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