Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 61
Fig. 48.—French Liiitlingof the thirteenth cen-tury with enamels. 48 THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. kept in the cathedral treasury at Milan, and is without itsoriginal inside; it is attributed to the iifth century./ Early Irish manuscripts were usually l)ound in quiti;simple limp leather… … Fig. 49.—The upper cover of the Cumdach of the StoweMissal. boxes or Cumdachs, all of which still existing are of thegreatest interest. One of the finest is that of the Stowe Missal, dating fromabout the eleventh century. It belonged originally to themonastery of Lorrha in Tipperary, whence it was…
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