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... English illumination . " The artist is thinking in new terms ― severity , dignity , power . . . . It is the exception for any tenderness to be allowed a place . ' Thus - concludes Oakeshott - in the books of the twelfth century English ...
... English illumination . " The artist is thinking in new terms ― severity , dignity , power . . . . It is the exception for any tenderness to be allowed a place . ' Thus - concludes Oakeshott - in the books of the twelfth century English ...
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... English illumination in painted style . The following Miscellanea manuscripts are also of interest . A Book of Hours in English and Flemish , Sarum use , executed c . 1460-1470 , may be regarded as an example of the best English ...
... English illumination in painted style . The following Miscellanea manuscripts are also of interest . A Book of Hours in English and Flemish , Sarum use , executed c . 1460-1470 , may be regarded as an example of the best English ...
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... English art of illumination decayed and perished for lack of encouragement . Here reference may be made to two MSS . of the 1470's : the Ordinances of Chivalry , preserved in New York ( Pierpont Morgan Library , M. 775 ) and the Warwick ...
... English art of illumination decayed and perished for lack of encouragement . Here reference may be made to two MSS . of the 1470's : the Ordinances of Chivalry , preserved in New York ( Pierpont Morgan Library , M. 775 ) and the Warwick ...
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Abbey Apocalypse Arabic artistic attributed beautiful belonging Berlin Bible blue Bodleian Library Bologna Book of Kells book-illumination book-production borders British Museum British Museum Add Byzantine art Canterbury Capitulary Library Carolingian Cathedral centre century A.D. Christ Christian Church codex collection colours contains copy decorated earliest early eleventh century Evangelists executed fifteenth century figures Florence fourteenth century Franco-Saxon full-page miniatures gold Gospel-book Gospels Hand-produced Book Hebrew Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts illuminated MSS illustrations initials interesting Irish Italian Italy Jewish John late Laurentian Library Library at Paris Lindisfarne Gospels London manuscripts Missal monastery monk Montecassino Moslem Mozarabic Munich National Library ninth century origin ornamentation Oxford painted period Persian Pierpont Morgan Library preserved produced Psalter Reichenau representation representing Roman Rome Sacramentary scenes scholars school of illumination scriptorium tenth thirteenth century twelfth century University Library Vatican Library Vienna Walters Art Gallery Winchester Winchester Bible written and illuminated