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Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939, Bodleian Library · London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co. · leaf 57
re excellently treated. This ivory has been figured in Didron, Annal. Archeol. (vol. xx. p. 118),and in Fictile Ivory Casts in the South Kensington Museum, London, 1876. PLATE II. LATIN GOSPELS OF ST. MATTHEW AND ST.MARK, PRECEDED BY THE CANONS OF THENEW TESTAMENT AND A PREFACE BY ST.JEROME. Folio… … fine MS. of the Gospels of SS. Matthew andMark comes next in date: it is of the nthcentury, bound in exceedingly thick boards,covered with brown leather, and ornamentedon the obverse side by an ivory carvingvariously assigned to the 9th, 10th, and nthcenturies. The ivory panel is framed in aborder…
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