Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 729
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… … THBJ NATURE OF GOTHIC. 219 XVI. At other times, and for the most port in work in thethirteenth century, the golden ground takes the form of pureand severe cusps, sometimes enclosing the leaves, sometimesfilling .up the forks of the branches (as in the example fig. 1,Plate I. Vol. Ill), passing…
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