The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 558
or ivory; but they wereonly employed for teaching children to read, as Quinctilian testifies in his PRINTING. Oratorical Institutions, and St. Jerome in his Epistles. There wasthen only wanting a fortunate chance to cause this carved alphabet to createthe typographic art fifteen centuries earlier… … °l= Fig. 388.—Fac-simile of 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…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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