PREFACE. … liarities of design, or of treatment, prevalent at dif- ferent periods, may not be considered either impertinent or unnecessary.* The greater number of our specimens having been taken from illuminated MSS. a slight sketch of the origin and progress of that beautiful art, which prevailed in Europe…
Alphabets · Illumination of books and manuscripts
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