Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 189
ious knocker ofthe end of the fourteenth century, from the door of the archdeacons house ofthe cathedral of Barcelona. The two cuts on the present page are taken from a manuscript service bookand lectionary, of the latter half of the fourteenth century, ornamented withbeautiful miniatures, and now… … scribe of the fourteenth century. The professed scribes wrote on the vellum whilein quires, and it was bound into volumes after being finished. The quire ishere represented as held in its place by a piece of lead suspended to a string ;one page is already written, the other is prepared to receive…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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