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. 219 XYL At other times, and for the most part 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 ITT.), passing…
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