Essays on archaeological subjects, and on various questions connected with the history of art, science, and literature in the Middle Ages (1861)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877 · London, Smith · leaf 207
of the Pentateuch, preserved in the BritishMuseum, MS. Cotton. Claudius B. IV. It waswritten in the closing years of the tenth century, orat the beginning of the eleventh, i. e. about the year1000 or very shortly after, and is filled with pictures,containing a great mass of architectural detail.… … 1. ^Vrcade, MS. Cottou. Claud. B. iv. fol. 3G. v». tics of most frequent occurrence in this manuscript.It represents an arcade, with a door under one of thearches. Columns and capitals of this simple form arcmost common, and the arches, when round, are all re- 192 ANGLO-SAXON ARCHITECTURE.…
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