The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 149
coloured coatingfrom the glafs, by attrition, or the ufe of fluoric acid, ftaining thewhite parts yellow. Various fhades of yellow may be obtained on thefame piece of glafs by repeating the tints. The two wood cuts accompanying the text, are from windows in theCathedral at Chartres, the colours… … It forms the firft of three enormous folio volumes, containing a Paflionale,or collection of lives of Saints, written about the year 1190. The larger initial letters are remarkable for their fize and intricacy ofpattern, and the fmaller ones (from which our fpecimen has been taken)furniih good…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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