History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 321
nly in tins case With the addition of the figure of a man driving a spear between the jaws of the dragon. All the other initials in this work are masterly, as, foi instance,the first capital B, which is formed of an admirably worked-out acanthus pattern, amidst which appear little animals, lions… … this time at Cividale in Friuli two initials with battles of knights are remark-able. Similar initials, and no other kind of pictures, occur in a manuscript ofS. Augustine Be Trinitate, written in the monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland,under the direction of the abbot Berchtold {d. A.D. 1197)…
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