Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 243
t is most loved ; inthe Northern thorny leafage. And if we take up any North-ern illuminated manuscript of the great Gothic time, we shallfind every one of its leaf ornaments surrounded by a thornystructure laid round it in gold or in color ; sometimes appar-ently copied faithfully from the prickly… … THE NATURE OF GOTHIC. 319 XVl. At other times, and for the most part in work in thethirteenth centui-r, the golden ground takes the foi-m of pureand severe cusps, sometimes enclosing the leaves, sometimesfilling up the forks of the branches (as in the example fig. 1,Plate L YoL ITL), passing…
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