Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 497
hat it has a number of full-pageminiatures at the beginning which are Byzantine, one being signed by an artist,Basilius.1 In so far the book might be regarded as a hybrid member of the aristocratic group ; but it differs from the other Psalters of the class not onlyin the language of its text, but… … Fig. 281. The Adoration of the Magi: miniature from the twelfth-century Psalter ofQueen Melisenda in the British Museum. (Egerton 1139.) The head-pieces in this MS., with their interlacings containing men andmonsters, are not Greek, but in the Western Romanesque style, and the smallerilluminated…
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