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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 363

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ated; at all events we have examples only of particularsections of the Scriptures, as, for instance, the Pentateuch andthe Gospels. The ar1 of Biblical miniature painting has a history of a thou-sand years, and in all of that long period it suffered less changethan any other art. Nevertheless, the… … Fig. 146. — Miniature from the Joshua lioll of the Vatican. Fifth century. men of Ai. Joshua and the illustrations were incidental to the embellishment of a title-page, of an initial letter, or of the margin. Of the early illus-trated manuscripts none so closely approaches this mode oftreatment as…

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