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FAC- SI MILES OF THE
MINIATURES & ORNAMENTS OF
ANGLO-SAXON & IRISH
MANUSCRIPTS EXECUTED BY
J. 0.
WESTWOOD. M.A.
DRAWN ON STONE BY
W.
R.TYMMS.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED BY DAY AND
SON.LIMITED.
LONDON. BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY MDCCCLXVIII.
FACSIMILES
MINIATURES AND ORNAMENTS ANGLO-SAXON AND IRISH MANUSCRIPTS
" Scribtori
Videnti salute;
felicitas
Amen
vita
Legenti pax
eterna;
Habenti
perennis;
Do
gracias
;
Ora
perpetua; cu
possessio
pro
mi
I)
;
tecum. i
fREVES,
fol.
i
IXTKOI.
MIRABLE As VRE THE SCULPTURED PROpUCTIONS OF GREECE AND ROME, WD exquisite
Herculaneum and artistic
as
are
Pompeii,
by the
chisel
amongst
whom
wanting
is
human
or the pencil, or of depicting
excessive
nevertheless
elaboration
frequently
state
artificial
of ornamental
arranged
so
which might scarcely he supposed
elaborate
productions of the
power
this
and
Is;
of
as
to
afford
fine
and
which
possible,
to
The work now chapter of
Roman age"
This element
is
precisely
of the
this
effects
often,
which
peculiarity
the East,
in
renders Irish
manner
a
in
indeed, seem
minute
Anglo-Saxon and
early
ci
exceedingly minute, but
broad
from
effects
form, either
to
as
but
to
be
and the instances
well-ai
the
study
schools so
of
the
interesting
Art-student.
the
first
human
necessarily the result
is
India an,! China
excellent
of the
in
works of more highly the
of society. often
wall-paintings
an clement
is
South-Sea [slanders, may be referred
producing
relics
it
Manuscripts and other
the
the
in
events,
details,
the result of accident rather than of design.
of
of
power of representing
the
of careful study and of a highly the
designs
musl be admitted that there
productions of ruder tribes which
Cultivated nations,
in
ornamental
the
it
a
occupation
of
scarcely
be
will
submitted
History
Great
the
to
the
Fine
Britain
to
of
supposed
Arts
any
opportunity
intricacy of
ve
graphia
sacra
had
been
pictoria"
1S43-5,
in
regarded
kingdom,
To
conquest.
such
for
as
a
constituting
extending
of judging
MSS„
Irish
this
and
the
plates
were
the the
"dark indeed,
Humphreys,
marvellous
beauty and
the publication of
until
many
which
in
of
from
many,
history;
by Struct, Astle, Shaw, and
afforded
Anglo-Saxon and
be
this
materials
with the exception of a very few exampl scarcely
in
Norman
the
afford
to
may
public
"
my
devoted
Paheo-
to
these
marvels of Art. If
the
earliest
Manuscripts of Greece
—of
which the splendid work
will
be
at
once
whole volume
seen
that,
very slightly, larger than the
being
written
red
in
Silvcstre
until
uniform-sized
in
of
the
rest,
letters;
and
which instances are of the greatest text,
executed
rarely,
if
in
ever,
MSS.
executed
words
of
the
body-colours,
occupying in
these
chief
and
entire
the
of
first
the
still
so
many
century, initial
volume
intercalated
On
of which
into
the
we
volumes
was
it
lines
existence
the
examined
examples,—it
custom
to at
pages hand,
with
of
the
or
but
of the in
the
drawings,
a
of
of the
proper
places.
their
earliest
gigantic
by
subjects
of
any knowledge, have the
written
write all,
being only distinguished
ornamented
the
be
entire-paged
illustrations
other
have
in
being plam, and not
was
they were
rarity,
the
Italy
two or three
first
if
pages.
islands
divisions
eighth
the
letters,
and
contains
size,
b
the
fine
first
few
,
—
IX IK. a
which
are
ornamental
with
filled
occupy whole pages, and are sometimes addition
In
proved
that,
ind
Grei
from
the
Ital)
in
namely,
originated,
to
these
and
e,
absolutel)
having
been
adopted
and
in
visited
by
or
established
numerous
by
the schools
this
Mr.
subject,
"in
observes,
that
whole
range
palaeography offers
..I"
produced, the
'Book ill
of
of
Kclls.'
Of
without
some
of
ever
Rouen, Boulogne,
St.
Darmstadt. Carlsruhe,
undei
contribution lor materials. In
an
a
memoir
employed the
have
on
entered
illustrated
Celtic
line
pa
p
at
of the
British,
most
-md.
had
perfection
these
in
missionaries,
was
mon
the
in
—
I
and which,
world,
became
or
most
the
some of
the
ented
in
been
Character of
this
modifications their exclusive
the of
Ow,„
historical
work;
Simply by the use of
By simple
lines,
3rd.
B)
the
step-like
4th.
By
the
Chinese
5th.
By
interlaced
dots,
straight
tin
angulated pattern. like
ribbon
Z
pattern.
in
for
hours
From
this
the libraries
Dublin,
Paris,
Peters-
St.
more or
less,
Artists."
which
laid
published
I
Institute."
in
1853,
"Grammar
of
Oman
bearing
on the
subject,
by our native
employment of each of them.
generally
broke ^^wi,
did.
I
1
the
all,
Various Styles of Ornamenta-
Irish
ornamentation adopted
or curved.
but
Salisbury,
ago,
jreai
them
whilst
examined and.
Jon, is
[acts
the ,m,\
Stockholm, Utrecht,
"Journal of the Archaeological in
copy,
living
MSS.,
interlacement."
Lichfield,
Anglo-Saxon, and
ornament, published
to
pages as
of
execution,
Irish
Dublin
attempted
irregular
earl)
marvellous
in
most
I
faultless
These
ornament are formed. 1st.
Europe
of
accomplished
hut these
to
When the
Durham,
Munich. &C, have
some length on
to
the
Rome. Copenhagen,
the distinctiw
earl)
the various
reference ol
"On
by the
toth volume
article
of
civilized
after-ages,
minute
Westwood examined I
Milan,
Gall,
of
and
England.
in
.Mr.
detei
burg,
tion
in
comparable
very carefully
London, Lambeth, Oxford. Cambridge,
of
state
Anglo-Saxon
which,
ornaments of which
the
dinary volume four entin
in
nothing
style,
studying
very work,
this
of handling
delicacy
same
the
in
opportunitj
despair.
of
Digby Wyatt, one
artists,
had
many
incontestably
Art
of
style
Charlemagne, and
bj
lias
other parts a
the
of
and
Irish
founded
former,
the
marvellous
of any other part
that
—
also
have been almost extinct
to in
century,
illuminations
ornament alone.
works
these
existed
eighth
most
a
of
the
intricate
be said
have
to
whilst ol
learning.
>l
On
abroad
imitated
to
study
ma)
arl
the
ol
brought from
distinct
carried
icarcel)
end
thi
and
cultivated,
islands,
the pictorial
indeed
to
fifth
iposed
the
peculiarities,
when
period
a
at
details;
entirel;
different coloured
inks,
and
and
artists,
different
in
have with
kinds
V
6th.
By
interlaced
7th.
By
the
zoomorphic patterns
and
;
which
patterns,
spiral
various
are
In
l>\
most
the
of
characteristic
the
whole* therefore
shall
I
shies
peculiar
and which are so extensively
To
confine mysell to the question of the
illustrated
or earlier date, has ever been
may be
ition
mentioned,
work,
of this
manuscripts, stone monuments.
in
and chasings of the precious metals) these systems of ornamentation had
Byzantium, where nothing analogous
in
plates
the
in
of these
origin
two memoirs above
the
in
suppose that (occurring, as they do, abundantly
ivory carvings, origin
place
this
in
ornament which are described
of
seen,
is,
in
any of these materials, of
must he allowed, somewhat
it
Rome, from whence
applied also to
The same
illogical.
has been affirmed
it
their
contemporary
a
only that
not
the early artists of these islands derived their inspiration, hut that even one of the finest of
had been brought from
the Irish crosses
&c,
especially
I
my
directed
Italy
attention
many
well
the
as
to
especially the
shown
to
our
in
spiral
it
Irish
This
fact,
which
that
in
are,
all
in
consider
to allow us to
importance
Ireland.
the
to
of
styles
assert
th
it
vain
monument
which
which cannot be
the sculptured
earliest ol
On
the
that
them
to
other hand,
" Britain
to
taught
our
British
MSS
Th«
same
well as the
the),
satisfactorily
ineuh.it
of
more
writ
be
as a
peculiar style his
were taken over
the
meeting,
Febnjaiy
9th,
185J
["hey
ar
Roman
of scription
and
"that although
statement, to
appears
the style originated
Rock, from
Dr.
1
numerous
entirely without foundation,
affirm
Ireland
dab
recent
the
Ireland,
Irish
rim
'
theii
or
and
Christian stones of style
ano
at
I
work's
some of our missim
throw doubt upon the assertion that
to
and
;
earliest
no
in
Irish
Ro
to
in
of our
be produced
probabi
peculiarit)
important
can
by no means capable of proof; whilst
beautiful samples ol
Academy,
now venture
especially
together with the traditions of the early British Church, which are too
ornament," appears
•
I
frequent visits
peculiar
by
possible,
if
Anglo-Saxon and
our
however, was
search,
the
same system of ornamentation, as
point of view, has done,
some
My that
by
seen
Rome, Ravenna,
to
question,
some of which,
Art,
made even
ninth century
the
to
may be observed
be of sufficient
exclusively
and
islands,
of this
pattern, are introduced, the execution of
manuscripts,
and too probable to
convinced
have been dependent on the teaching
xhibit the
the
own
have
Hast.
the
of
ever
of a date previous
been
have
recorded to
arc
Holy Places
were elaborated relic
doubtless
whom
of
home more than
returned
Art
must
Mosaics,
earliest
pilgrims, so
a recent visit
solution
Early Christian
a careful study of the existing remains of the
During
1
the
to
too
have
marked with
tl
.!i
made any
progress
must
considered
be
That
disprove.
from the
respect
The
with
of
these
applied
Northmen
;
great
special
rise
name
of
in
not
visit
on
these
invariably like
Of
no
in
b)
of
even
and
truly
idea
or Anglo-
Irish
be admitted, when we recollect our native Arts had been
after
was from
kingdom
this
that
Roeskilde, having been
at
is
it
be observed,
to
monumental stones of Scandinavia exhibit
inter-
the
earliest
Swedish churches, we
Anglo-Saxon ornaments; namely, the Z-pattern
spiral
patterns,
but
;
will
it
equal
and
Lund, was also founded by
heads of laccrtine animals, and interlaced patterns
the
..I
at
Moreover,
that
many
indeed,
be
instances are given
at
once observed that
size,
connected
Irish
and Anglo-Saxon works, the
the
as
spires
in
Copenhagen, both of the Bronze
at
to
are
together
like
form diapers; connected
in
the
all
these
letter
X;
spirals arc
the whorls
that
together
by
being
O.
bj
ornamentation
Wol
ornament was if
these
it
century'.
but extend over wider surfaces, so
the letter
in
indis-
Church of Sweden,
Worsaae
sizes,
peculiar
stones
that
Church of Denmark,
most characteristic of the
of different
the
Bishop William, an Anglo-Saxon, confessor of Canute
Of
and
popular
the
to
that
of
many carved
Runic knotwork has been
long
till
hand,
Danish Collection of Antiquities
the later metal-work
style or.
whilst
differed
and elaborately ornamented
uninscribed
caned woodwork of
ornament.
examples are also given peculiar
islands
characteristic
consecutive the
all
the
to
other
the
the mother
the
in
more
published
are
not consecutive,
1
questioned;
originator
are
inscriptions,
only a popular fallacy will
is
and,
extent the
spiral
ages,
whorls
whereas
are
given
the
Metropolitan
the plates of the great
the
has
as
the
there
and
numerous ornamented
the
never meet with
and Iron
sufficiently
the styles of ornamentation
in
as
That
MSS.,
ribbons, often terminating in
the
regarded
the early part of the eleventh
in
although
he
to
origin,
this
the
whilst
Englishmen
or
be
Church
British
the
eleventh century by
the
occur to a
cannot
early
Runic
tianized,
it;
laced
Augustine
the
bearing
as
diil
Standi,,
that
St.
tli.it
well
perfection
to
in
278)
875,
pp,
will
as the source from
well
fact
accounts for the identity
t
That
Saxon remains. the
i.
work
of there being a church
although the
islands
Scandinavian
of
criminately
that
as
itself,
:
few remarks.
hut
merit
same designs
are
brought
Bede,
Scandinavia
of
styles
parts
the
latter
coming of
the
sufficiently
Irish,
claims
Hiberno-Saxon different
of this
both parts of the kingdom.
in
I
of our Fathers,
plates
event
that
since
a quastio vexata
Venerable
of
rtion
and which the
difficulty,
still
is
previous to
Ion.;
in
.
the
of
was derived,
it
of illuminating" (Church
art
erroneous,
as
both islands these arts followed the introduction of Christianity scarcely
in
Hon which
the
in
that
were
independent of Scandinavia
tai
rather
not
the
I
which interlaced animals occur, of which
in
am
justified
borrowed
by
the
case,
its
origin
think
I
that
in
considering
Northmen in
this
from
that
this
the
country was entirely
INTR0D1
There
is
however,
still,
VII
Roman
of
class
a
with which the early native artists of Britain, at
and
may be
which
assumed
haw
to
Art-work
them
been acqu
originating
in
country
this
in
must surely have
least,
influenced
executed
their
peculiarly
ornamented volumes, and especially the great decorated pages opposite the commencement of the Gospels.
and
Here we
some we even
in
Roman
allude to the
I
exist in this country.
tessellated pavements, of which, even
great masses of
find
very peculiar pattern, consisting of a series of interlaced circles,
some of
the
(Cuming,
pi.
of this
f.
pattern,
formed
of
other.
These
i
we
see
and
is
evident
Ballaugh
at
that
the
{ibid.,
however, comparatively
are,
alternately
has been met with
such
a
between
difference
total
lead
to
them,
the
being
latter
doubt whether the
to
us
so
borne
be
pavements as
It
an
mind
in
the
that
none
Irish
which
exceedingly
so
are
Anglo-Saxon
later
MSS.
however, only the
not,
is
century
artists
developed,
and national
but which
made
cannot of
idea
perhaps be denied peculiar
this
in
executed
schools
the
in
these
in
characteristic
and
had
as
in
the
must,
It
Roman
the
Romans
the
never
old
interlaced
If
we
of Tours,
"
SS. .Ethclwold and
of
of a very gorgeous
—
Louvre,
given,
in
MSS.
the great
such,
we his
very
is
is
it
although
such an
cannot
it
extent
be
to earn
as
the
since
Dunstan,
character, frei
of the preceding
feeling
for
instance,
executed
as
the
in
I
style,
is
applied.
doubted for
the ninth century in
in
Bible
at
the
Basilica
Walls of Rome, or the Bible of Count Vivien, written the
foliage
to
style,
it
the
that
that
name
its
of
on the Continent.
look at
&c,
their
in
was from the Frankish schools of Art
it
derived, to
previous
islands
distinct
which conventional
in
that
was
style
country was carried
this
Opus Anglicum
has
accordance with the
in
still,
elaboration
at
scrolls.
have
intertwine with the framework of the pictures round which
to It
the
spiral
not
the
obtained
which we look
in
where, indeed
Ireland,
of ornamentation
style
which gold was profusely introduced, and
"
could
artists
in
exist
whilst
MSS.
the
Hibemo-Saxon works, such
designs of the
characteristic
their models, since
equally distinct
the
if
their feet.
tenth
the
thai
Again,
intricate,
artists of
zoomorphic patterns, the Chinese-like Z-pattern, or the
moreover,
set
more
the other
interlaced
MSS.
the
more than a general idea of ornamentation from these pavements, for
each
must be added
it
in
chains,
over
interlapping
compare even the interlacements of the pavements with those of the MSS.,
former are so simple, as
vain
Michael
two interlinked
represent
to
bar,
Kirk
at
g.,
e.
studying the various examples
monuments; and
late
an ornament
On
2b).
single
a
Man;
of
Isle f.
intended
is
it
by
together
united
instance of such
not a single carefully
a)
it
circles
we
Cumberland and
of
crosses i,
one
whilst
:
reproduced on
precisely
is
many
so
still,
compartments,
in
geometrically arranged
ribbon-patterns
interlaced
see
ornament arranged
find a
45th
great
plate
of
variety
of classical
Paintings,
not
foliated
fewer
for
of
seventy
Paul
beyond
le
Chauve, now
thus
D'Agincourt
Charles
designs:
than
the monasteries
St.
different
d
patterns
vui
!
*
of
borders
thi
Bald,
from
anything found
models can
able
or
tenth
borders
f
ornamental
borders
of
Since
ornamentation
"
carved
my
of
Annals of
main
them
to
Prankish
the
the
still
being
school,
the
which
in
feature.
pictoria,"
or
investigated
only
here
can
I
at
compared with the grand
approach
sacra
been
has
between
then fashion-
the
however,
look,
be
can
of
" PaIa_*ographia
Art-works
early
we
If
diptychs
ivory
between
marriages
works of Art, executed during the
nearest
the
Charlemagne and
disseminating on the Continent the
in
nothing which books,
unlike
intercourse
England
into
I
derived from classical
royal
various
artists.
or early Capetian
whose writings
to
the
introduced, and, indeed, forms the
is
Prehistoric
on
or
quite
scrolls
between
intercourse
assisted
it
find
shall
and
these were
introduced
necessarily
£thelwold
the
our
of
authors,
1
we the
publication
the
foliage
that
great
Hiberno-Saxon
the
century,
ornamental
conventional foliage
for
oi
manner, the equally great
like
ornament, whilst of
style
the
Charlemagne
either
composed
consequent
specimens of Carlovingian
existing
ninth
of each,* almost
of Prankish
idmired
In
Courts,
English
members
style
when
remembered.
and
executed
arc
two,
Hiberno-Saxon books; and
our
is
Prankish
different
save
scarcely be doubted, i
the
which,
in
volume,
former
the
of
all
now.
refer
the
the Royal
Irish
the
character of the
commented upon by
student.
Si f
Academy,
at their meeting,
February
1
II
'\
DlGUY H.
i
\\"v 11
"
i
Art •(
H
N
Matin:
r
"ThcArtof
-."and
[II
ESS.," Pari
8va,
large
p.
11
;..
in
13.
Cli.
Mathieu."
Paris,
volume.
Kunstwerkc
Article
Denis et
;
lam
1862, "
Illuminating and Missal Painting."
143 pp., with
I
chron.l
WaAOBK.
roues of Ireland."
llhmii"..
!
l
i I
I
i
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Paris,''
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March.
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306.
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den
in
Irischer Manuscripten
1851, translated, with
vii.,
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by
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Dr.
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Ulster Journal of
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the early Interlaced
1
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Nothing remains of
. ,.
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pd
,
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but
1
.
1
thi
nl
in
n
the
studied
these
miniatures as
for
on
,
all
the
..I
i
bi
*h
i
in
"
the
i
Prol
command
Eastern
...
I
It
thi
ol
is
I
,
very cl
is
have a verj
greatest
mechanical
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skill.
the dress,
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i
ii
monarchy
trary,
'
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and
charai
tb
thesi
'
hi
tint
eyi
different from
verj
represented,
thi
with
way,
the
miniatures of early
are
from thosi
in
originally
painting
and
figures,
Byzantine models but the attitudes, the fashion
the
destitute of
is
ma
Byzantine
t .,...,'
seated
shading ovei
carefully
"ere
their
is
fingei
bears a small
aequilac,"
he
green
centuries;
ninth
executed,
are
VI
applied to
i 1
thai
Evangelists
four in
the
paintings, as well
Italian
and
eighth
the
of
Imago
drawing of these
notice
also
with extended
it.
of the
style
we may
Byzantine and
\
".
holding a
spectator,
the
rests
The ornamental bench on which
manuscripts than any other author, observi the contempt) ar$
misspelt
noses as peculiar, after the
th
which,
lurica loding cantavit
Et hoc idem peto a
several
this
by
being a very curious
r,
Hanc
character
St.
however,
contains the
plate
(Astle,
page from
first
"SUFFRAGARE TRINITATI*
quai
mortalitas
the
oldest
one before
three times
commences,
It
militia-
initial
Loding
by
suffra
me
trahat
the
charm, commencing
or
ed
miserere
portion
i
Museum.
the other portions of the volume, consisting of various prayers written
hand as the Gospels,
le
1
of the right-hand
characters
line
(.
written in the character of the lower line of the right-hand division of Ill
fifth
the British
in
and the three other
text of this
t
large letters completing this line
treatment
the
and
larger
MS.,
Royal
Matthew, and the remainder of the
•
my
(St.
discipu(lis)."
The
The
Lindisfame.
those of the
like
1.
fig.
of
lines
Gospels of
the
in
ling those of the
ter
of writing, each
variety
portion of
left
the
in
the
with sandals
has the outlines formed of gold, with red edging and dots; the cross stroke of the
"Et"
in
others
the
in
hand holding
left
vangelists,
I
with
us
dixit
angulated capitals used
being formed by the wing of the detached dragon.
and
tin
filled
the
in
the
SECVNDUM MATHEUM. ET
Nl IHT) Xl'l
the
in
the
of
part
this
kind.
elegant
are
as
hut
hand,
left
Angel have
same manner
the
in
of small claret-red dots arranged
on the
naked
his
of the Scrihe) the Evangelists and the
in that
one
of
Librar)
same school as the
bei
ha
.I
hi
,
" trinitatis," the
final
-^
being
supposed
to
lie-
formed by the
—
45
This singular Lorica* occupies three pages and a half, and is glossed throughout with Anglo-Saxon, which is considered to have been supplied by two hands, at the end But the volume possesses a great value from of the tenth and in the eleventh centuries. the fact that the
belonged
it
to,
if
were not expressly written
it
On
century.f
eighth
of the
half
first
occupied by the portrait of St. Luke,
Bishop /Ethehvald,
for,
Mark ending on
St.
of leaf 20) appears the following acrostic dedication to the Bishop
in
of which
(the verso
21
fol.
from
Passion
the
of
the recto
is
the verso
:
etcma do donante munera scruunculo /ad iusq:
xpo
in
tnerces
diuinis
laborib'
paratu 1
sedemq bcata prajmia
i
dm eminentcm
audut alq: aluent
bi
anus
cura
bit
\\>o
vcro
iudici
ubi
et
numen
cut
sci
iusti
cu conaco
eptilant
h.-nor
aethri
i
cum
sup sidcra caJi
darker cum beads
sine
fine
semp
scm
coram
plaudent
sei
llbi
alti
in
omnipotenu do libcllum hanc ad laudem scribcrc
n
..
ternum
domum olum dm
postulanda dni
gredi
n
cu
uolumini oracul
huic
iudesinenter
diligenter
text
pulsat
cutmtno cu agminibus sd
calor
carpentes
feci
vita
fiducia
carminib'
castis
Ilia
via
opens mercedem mctet tamen mea piacula del
immensae
ater
cu dno
t
inc
This chocolate;
acrostic
and
the scribe;
this acrostic, "
whence
On
careful
the
m
as
they
though similar
throughout
arc
forming
capital letters
So lactery
called because
or amulet,
to
slightly
are
like
book
appears
itself
also
even
is
consist
to
bottom
the
at
two hands are
the
exactly like
he
those
reprinted
from
similar.
The
illuminated
pages,
i
an in
i
S 53. in his
"Kymni
Irish
from an
gloss,
fourteenth
the
century,
attempt to explain
which
tli.
without Any
I
tliu
man)
Strang.
Words
CODtail
latera
nn_a
libretlt
Ut
Ut non
tetri
is
I
M
&c
talios
medical
strange
fecit."
the
Mr.
I
with another Anglo ian
MS.
5S5,
fol.
153
i,
in
bathn t
1
Daniel
As
"Tl
i
phi iscs,
which
he thou
stated
in
'
.
S55, with of the
for
Lastly,
l
"Gillas banc loricam
"
copied
M
'
51
1
Sennas atque
madianum
1
lymn, with
i
that
S
lari
mi chinas cladam
i
In
lath
volume of Irish logical and Celtic Soci his
pai
stated
I
cephalem cum
the
the
of the
c.
read-
h
ri
1
1
it
ula.
that
ited
n
1
different
1
in
shown
I)
MS.
Irish in
,
stated to be of th»
VI.
turaJ
words w
|>.
1st
18,
pi.
copy
a
division;
vol.
the
ol
monastic
noble
the
in
Diplomatique,"
from
writing
iii.
library p]
227, &c.,pl. 47. 55)-
At
French Revolution, when the
of the
period
the
was ransacked and
library
Contents dispersed, the volume of the Gospels in question disappeared,
had the pleasure of ascertaining in
M. Wladimir
Sacken and
that
found
it
Library of St. Petersburg,
Imperial
the
remarkable page
Stassoff,
The
the volume.
in
am
1
its
way
Russia, and that
to
by the
and,
enabled
a
columns, divided into verses always commencing with
a
Baron of
fac-simile
general text of the four Gospels
is
now lodged
is
it
kindness of the
to publish
Ostcn-
most
the
written
doubli
in
the initial letters of each verse
line,
Each
being daubed with patches of various colours, and often surrounded with red dots.
Go-pel
has
the
first
page
of
the
four
pages being
simplest
copied
in
following
but
fac-simile, is
with the
filled
size,
MS. and
tin
few words written
commencement
thi
reduced
a
in
the description of
first
in it-
of
illuminations given
the
letters;
Gospel, having
John's
St.
gigantic
in
French work above
the
its
have, however,
I
referred
by the
The
to.
Benedictines:
1
MS.
du
A
"'
e
planchc
rtt.
paru mi
.1
chef-d'oeuvre aux connoisseurs
La premiere
V
la
partie surtout
t
imp]
Lver est la plu 1
1
1
lit
nn ponce,
m
.i
nt
phis
iicorc
I
et
moifl
la
de massif a
c.
-.
1
1
:
parleurgrai in
my
pourpn soitadmis.
25th
liftre
Piatt
|
Le
frontispice
de Saint Matthii
I
Les
Ii
1
a
,li
mi
iln
Ms tiennent
Nous
hauteur.
lieu
l.i
s
iU
pat
let
lili
ii
I
'
1
ma
tic
mi-
lunr
qu'on y
ttraster."
from
the abo
nor any great
The Kells
in
however, ol
in
it
ssellated
initial
respect
grotesque i
!•
to
will
cruciform pages
letters
their
iii
my
plate
gigantic
appear in
that there are
The
the great
one
initial
ol
L.
large
size
contrasted with
renin
the Gospels before us, almost absent,
animals,
no figures of the Evai
the volume.
can only be
size.
k.tl.li
and
occupying,
in
are i
spiral
replaced irerj
thost
antl
bj
unusual
1
rees p^ir si\
1
"I
Z-like a
gri
Bool
thi
ol
patterns are, iter
manner,
number
thi
—
M.
" I!
communicated
Stassoff has
contents
its
—
si
„„„
principio erat
space
the recurved
1
of
initial
sid
right
n
the
Doraei
Mr
'
,
filled
omitting the ornament within the open space of the
.Marks Gospel, copied
bt. •
The
T he
nl
remainder being
hand
surrounded.
the
,
L
*.
toP of
interlaced
„„„.
["he
Luke and
'
'
*
ign
Bo,
,s
down
of St. Chad, but terminating like
••
lh e
ke manner only occupy portion th
,
minuscule
of St.
whus«
curved
'
.
small in
The"Qmquidem"
in
& ^^
.,^ ros^t
^ *•«
thrCe
border being unusually elegant
ol
h
h
X. as
i„
of the latter
+
Tl at
ail
"»
mi
,:,.
Plate the
X
,„
2
i\oN
represented
two small
in
my
and would form
Four grounds,
plate surrounding
compartments
square
verj
a
French
Scourging,
pages of the manuscript:
(fol,
angulated
the
1
mii.
An
4.
of
course,
difficult
1
I
shown by Dr. Todd
satisfactorily
A.D. it
possible that the
is
Archbishop
The
the accession of the king.
IR\
is
now
W.
it
near
date
the
Graves,
in
to
at
the
the end
ago,"
The translation Mac Durnan, or Toman,
addition.
to
of
the
Gospels
are several
end of
to
short
" Finit,
SS5, and died
in
in
in
the
notes written
Durnan.
(See article
in
the margins of
some
"Amen:
I
(for
the
linit
and
"
scribes in
ol
that
1
|
i
at
the
the eighth
Litt\
of
St.
Luke. "I>
and ninth centuries.
I
S
XIX. and XX.
valuable
MSS.
an opportunity of examining
Wilmovski, under whose portions
many
n
of tht ).
THE GOSPELS OF THE CATHEDRAL OF TRFA
AMONGST
by Sir
as stated
698,
may probably be
;
Amen,
the custom of Irish
Plates
have no
I
Book of Armagh, which
A.D.
S07, which
Mai
Brith
of
not indicate the Archbi
Gospels
by Aidus
so that
on the occasion
jj;ift
316.)
iii.
Irish
volume as a
Matthew's Gospel the scribe has written,
Mark.
of St.
— according
St.
Maid
of
A.D.
in
palaouraphical peculiarities,
its
the
the
ninth century, and
the
in
925, and died in 9.(1;
in
certainly does
inscription
been written (not
havi
the
it
of
li
which see he was promoted
in
"Proc. R. Irish Acad.,"
There and
E
.\-:\\
1'
the son of
Brith,
was written by the same hand as
ascertained
earlier
as follows:
RNENS]
1
Betham, but) by a scribe named Ferdomnach,
as
at
REX \
DAT
have been the writer of the volume, and, from
doubt that
much
a
style,
1
Athelstan ascended the Anglo-Saxon throne
927.
4 verso) bears
Anglo-Saxon
have been Abbot of Derry
to
Armagh,
afterwards Archbishop of
the
Several chat
1
comparatively modern
a
but Ma-icl
;
back-
of
I
RECTOR Dl METROPOL1 is,
in
IS'iT
ANGLOS/E \A\A
is
gold
Entombment
D5 DOGMA1 /AT
PER
four lines
burnished
and
MAC
BRIDUS
I.
1
DURNAN1
The date 925
correct.
church of Canterbury, have been copied
one of which
letters
large capital
* Ml
first
with
origin,
Crucifixion,
pattern in the unusual,
drawn mathematically
to the cathedral
King Canute, containing grants
inscription, written in
step-like
bord
side
the beginning of the different Gospels.
Saviour, have been inserted at
upon blank
The
two
the
of if
of
illuminations Betrayal,
the
Ml
of St. Luke.
figure
middle pattern
mosaii
striking
twelfth-century
representing
the
the
in
MAM
IKIsll
\\l>
the library of the Cathedral
in
which
I
am
mii.
most interesting building
I,t
see
Didron's
indebted
to
the
of Treves
has been thrown on the
"Annales Arctueol
Canon
learned I
i
quarto
copy of the
Latin
Gospels
of
i
i
I
I
01
i
'
.
i
i
very
great interest, from the singular combination it contams of Celtic and Teutonic or Franco-Byzantine art and caligraphy, of which two plates afford abundant evidence.
which
my
l
The
text
than,
that
written partially in
is
but closer and
Nouveau page
neater than,
Traitc
and
a
Hiberno-Saxon hand, resembling
fine
of the Gospels of Lindisfarne, and partly in
even
de
the writing in
Diplomatique,'
same
the
in
the
th,
two
so
that
line;
first
but rather
Merovingian uncials as
division
the
of
44th plate
hands occurring sometimes on the
writing
of
both
must
large
the
in
th,
have
been
simultaneous.
On
the
surrounded
leaf of
first
with
red
text,-" Scnbton
possess.o cu salute.
The having a
m
The
•Vi.ulus
perpetua.
Ora
gracias.
occupied
is
inch and a
beardless,
with
quarter
the
felicitas
Ds
perennis.
Habenti
tecum."
representations of the
four
Evangelical
by bars, forming a cruciform design
diameter, within which is a bust of the and with a plain yellow nimbus with a
in
book,
dark
circle
Videnti
pro me.
separated
holding a
Luke and
of St.
within a square compartment Hiberno-Saxon hand of portion of the
Legenti pax
open parts of the
the
inscribed,
is
the
in
Do
page
an
circle
young and
Saviour,
manuscript written
an oblong compartment
central
red edge
eterna.
Amen.
verso of this
symbols, each
the
and
dots,
vita
blue,
with white
"Aquila" of
dots
John
St.
arranged
are
almost
in
triangles
identical
those of the
with
Pans Gospels. The " Leo" of St. Mark is better drawn than in most of the Hiberno-Saxon Gospels; and St. Matthews representative is a fair figure of a man bindw h.gh^ holdings roll in his right hand, with sandals on his feet, and destitute 01 nimbus The ornaments in the framework of this
border of
lu.sse,
fifth
second
the
,n
following
with the several
aota from appeas ,
uangfehsu),
miniature resemble
Paris Gospels, represented in
and two
^^"^
f a
1
Matthew
St.
The &c,
leaves
headings written
d«wing
are
represented
with
Merovingian
in
my
in
those of the
Plate 21.
occupied
the
"
Prefaces
capitals,
Plures
aidely coloured
20th Plate occupies the verso of the
™&^
3 C° nj0ined fiSUrC " f a '" " the fur syn*°fe. as /r the mscription of the names of the four Evangelists themselves, --^Mattheus written in Hibemo-Saxon letters of large size, resembling in for
E
&c
those used in our finest
manu
1
T
Principal figure in this design consists of the upper half of the "Homo," Jf the of which appear at the bottom of the drawing. Below the central cross-line will be perceived the wings an., claws of the Eagle below these are two of the legs of the Lion whilst below, resttng on the blue dress of the Man, are two of the legs of the Calf he Man. with a short grey pointed beard, wears a blue under-garment, on which -er the nght shoulder and above the feet the two yellow vitt,, which occur feet
:
;
L
aga, n
'
m ?,"' the dress
i
por
,
siL s le
m
ec clcs.as.cal
,n :
TT use
° will
-
but
r
" PPer ofr^the
T:
thc
lg
is
fol
But the
but whether the star-like object held tlic
which
^
- ° mamentai
gannem ""
Eagle,
han ds of , with and
«** -°
as
simp,y hv
that
^ ^^
atacombs and
* llC
P|a , e
ln
also be seen
f of;v ? Kells,
till, the Book
., els
arcss
FT!*""' below the wings
cSuofZ c d Child
^0 An
the
lot oe garment; ,im ; andr ,t lee
m
ChnStlanS
" St
', ,
of
Angels held
In
1
th < St.
in
—* the
Luke
hand
right
in
-
*
U
identi,
^
,1
*
Gospels of S.
INGLO-SAXON AND IRISH MANUSCRIPTS.
ja
Chad;
or whether
but
decide;
to
intended
for
will
ornamented
an
for
intended
no doubt
be
it
think
I
articles
Appendix on
the
in
is
"
be entertained that the object in the
(See
knife.
" aspergillum
or for an
"flabellum"
.1
difficult
hand
left
is
the "holy spear"
and flabellum.)
The
bold
ids
The
"
Epistle
N
red
in
the
in
Jerome
St.
occurs
19th
written
formed of an interlaced
WGI.I.Il M
design, above which
MS.
equally early
ornamental
MSS.
columns with
mentioned by
cocks
that
Hiberno-Sa.xon
ing
the
the
upper angles
With one
classical
or
down
;
the drawing
(as in
figure holding a
being
head of
Peter),
St.
including
Canons, being
the
the
in
and
Canon,
fourth
Each
of
thi
first,
second, Peter,
left
hand
elevated,
tonsured. facts,
and
fourth
excellently
The
has the
scroll,
and
the
in
act
fingers
are
and with only the
finger
THOMAS
It
and
" "
pater
viilens
populum Aminai pulus
meui
voluntiriiu
" AlilA.
paler
diis."
'•
&c.
filled
surmounted by
arch
thi
the
in is
a
benediction
in
thi
I
the fourth Canon, where the
also
the
keys
extended:
interpretations of i!\m,
parn (
Evangelist or Apostle, each
the
in
two
of the
ornamented
are
which
first,
in
the
his
right
rep
hand,
crown of the head
Evangelists
narrate
inscribed at the sides of the medallion
follow three leaves, with
bi
pair ol
style
in
as the text.
Then
will
base of the columns
has
tabli
apparently,
first
;
which the same
excellent
arches
of giving
extended;
holding,
designed,
in
Iiberno-Saxon
I
in
19.
the
in
the
second of the Canons, where three of the
name
an
entirel)
columns, capitals,
the
but
in
iiii.").
Plate
in
manner, with the third and fourth lingers closed, except
St.
Thi
the lower garment, and
of any Celtic work, the birds (here
before us), evidently representing an
book or
other
century, although
rarity.
entirely
quo
in
copied
is
unlike that
entirely
with the usual Celtic spiral pattern. bust
cl
satisfactory proof
a
greatest
of
know no
I
in the eighth or ninth
the writing
arches,
is
o)
exception,
Byzantine style
I,
INCIPIT
scroll
which
(oi
of that date arc of the
the four Evangelists,
the style of Art
MSS
capitals,
surmounted by a
Canon ("Canon primus
first
connection with
in
Iiberno-Saxon characters
I
Eusebian Canons, occupying several pages, enclosed
the
rounded
all
the
Gabriel
the outer, are indications of Angelic or noble rank.
page succeed
upper portion of the
perceived
thi
the capital of which rests on a bo
These Angels
had not quite died out
in
Michael and
example) are of a very Byzantine character, and an
the square patch of gold on this
drawing copied
fine
large elegant
in
angulated
in
the
across the head, the long wand, the two narrow yellow bands
To
of the
two hues of the heading,
the
two Archangels.
pedestal,
ribbon-knot.
Celtic
a
occurrence in
its
ccntr.il
contains
the
heads
their
inscribed
line),
that art of a superior kind
instances of
but
SE*CYNDUM MATTEUM. is
recto
the
Hiberno-Saxon characters, with
largi
page which
a
holding a purple panel (resting on a
facts are
in
inscription at the
the
Damasus commences on in
representing
Plate,
(whose names are inscribed over
the
as
well
as
Iieronimus," are in Merovingian capitals.
1
Epistle
my
of
Pope
to
of the Gospels of Lindisfame;
style
After this lower part
of
Dumaso
Beato papa:
11
the whorls terminating
of
especially
noticed,
Iiberno-Saxon characters, identical with portion of the
I
''Novum opus" being
the
leaf,
initial
scribsit,"
and be
will
volume.
text of the
sixth
frame,
angles of the
"Thomas
bottom,
ornament,
the
of
character
the
at
Hebrew names
:
his is
the same
the s.un
GOSPEI
These
the page
being written
lines
five
in
S
01
1
OP TREVES,
i
Hiberno-Saxon
fine
the two following are in the
and
Anglo-Saxon
wrote
scribe
Merovingian hand.
verso
succeeding
the
of
Mathei Euang.," written
Matthew
that of St.
Matthew
of St.
the
in
made
geiiuit
of the
style
of one
cupying
part ol
the
text
are
On
in
my
lion,
to
the
next
has
top of
fac-simile
"Asa autem
contracted
manner,
The whole
the curve.
being
page,
a
in
written
conventional
the
in
the
perceive
I
commencement
the
latter
Argumentum,
Merovingian
as
are
also the
and
of
the
of the
the greater i
Mark, except the heading of the Argumentum.
the
full,,
wing p
frame,
The
20th Plate.
writing,
St.
column,
first
figure
en ted St. Mark, very rudel) drawn, by the same hand as the conjoined symbolical figure is standing in front of a tall chair, with his left hand .
downwards towards an open book, which seems fixed in an impossible manner of the chair, and with a strange bird-like animal, intended for a winged
pointing to the
recto of the next page.
the St.
the verso of
and
pages,
surrounded bj an ornamental in
the
Hiberno-Saxon hand; but the verso of the
the
and Capitula of
attached
in
Plate 21, although the figure
of this genealogy, that the scribe
comma
two
historical part, are in
my
Sci
arranged exactly as
which words occupy the top of the
lines
reversed
Matthew ("Imago
the pagi
Then commences, on
1
word autem being written
the
a
capitals),
tli.it
of the scribe
fact
the book was written.
St.
Paris Gospels, as copied by Silvestrc.
the
of
iosabath,"
like a h' with
Lima;
when
of
Paris Gospels represented in
in the
"
page has a portrait
Hiberno-Saxon
the
in
very different.
is
Matthew's Gospel,
1
thus appears that the
It
most important parts of the manuscript, either from
the
himself being a more important personage in the monastery
The
remainder of
whilst the
of caligraphy being the most esteemed, or (more probably) from the
style
just
75
characters,
outside the
at
At
side.
secundum marcum written
drawing
of the
foot
written
is
"Incipit
textus
euangelii
SCI
with a flourish of the pen forming the outline of an exaggerated of the
u
Mark, with the Prefaces of
of St.
,t
Merovingian hand, except the
the
in
the
feliciter,"
The whole
kind of oak-leaf.
initial
of
Luke, are
St.
Gospel, which
the
long and at the beginning of the Argumentum of St. Luke's Gospel, which are executed by the Hiberno-Saxon artist in the ornamental character. 1
is
narrow, and the word " Lucas'
These fig.
are followed
(being precisely
3
This
border.
in
by the portrait of
same
the
an open
book resting upon
down, terminating the
while dots.
bar which
knobs.
in
satchel
its
At and -I
of
also
is
yellow, with
interlaced i"
which
object I
his
chair,
..,n
I
Above
the
the
dilated
of which
are
object
is
a
lower half of this
side
bears
the
ol
thumb being
of which
coloured
red,
the
bird
book
the
in
.V.
Appendix
for
article
on the
the cover
is
is
down
below
in
the repn
and
spiral
entation
yell,
nature of which, although lectern, but without
upper half of the right
and supporting a hook, whilst
Hiberno-Saxon
characters,
euangelium secundum Lucani. •
hang
lower border.
directed
purple, blue,
occupying the
a lion's fore legs,
inscription,
the
terminate
intended for an ornamental
large
and
ends orange;
firming the top
book, the
supports
the
onlj suggest to be
this
consider to
1
tags or fastenings of which
the side of the figure opposite
four divisions
the design, having a calf's head the
hand he holds what
left
never met with another representation, and
atical,
pport.
is
At
patterns.
(the
have
Saint
surrounded by a yellow nimbus and a
line
the four fingers support
the back of the
his
or cover,* the
blue with white dots, with an angul
The ends
Plate 52,
In the original the two open leaves of the book are yellow"
them
crosses
In
my
outline in
in
Mark), surrounded by a narrow interlaced
has the head (not tonsured)
figure
blue border ornamented with 1"
Luke, copied
St.
as St.
style,
, ,
|
r i sn
2
Q
"Incipit
-
MANUSCRIPTS.
IRISH
(|
The whole
Hiberno-Saxon
red
small
in
and
broad
with
"thomas
letters,
cursive character than the name.
much more
a
in
narrow
a
in
interlaced
slightly
Ik-low the
and sides ornamented with rudely interlaced knot-work.
written,
i
word being
enclosed
is
angles
the
ribbons,
bonier,
an oblong space ornamented with red dots,
the
is
Below
the second
scribsit,"
this again, enclosed
in
numeration of the quaternion, qxxi,
in
black Utters, with red patches, the whole page forming a very striking composition.
To
succeed
this
been
have
misplaced
Matthews Gospel,
St.
leaves
five
(tin:
with
last
the whole written in the
Vrgumentum, written
and
Argumentum
proving
i],
patches
with
capitals,
to
it
Causa:
Breves
Hiberno-Saxon hand, except the
fine
Merovingian
large
in
[qui
numeration
the
the
containing
binding),
iii
of
of title
dilterent
colours and red dots.
The
John de
nasci
ite
Kells,
which was supposed
and here
preceding description,
the
We
the text
being
the
remarkable
written
fine
in
there
the
can,
productions
many
have also seen that
are
We
book.
resemblance
have
to
the
pternach, and
to
that
tin
of
its
We
seen
I
on islands called
1.
learn
Codex,
I
found
This
lines.
the
in
Iiberno-Sa.xon school,
I
Book
of
found
it
(Mayence),
The
in
in
Rhine, or
Latin
records
I
island
"I
"
Abbot
t
lies
a
a
bj
distance
apprehend
D.
)
to
founded
the the
by
was the monastery insula
in
of
qua
in honore S. Micluielis
the volume befon in
and
Paderborn,
" constructa
Rhenum
that
us] ceterorumque
his charter, dated at
M
Charlema
north-east
the
—
,141) lil
of
Strasburg,
by an site
Irish
of the
a narrow
on the east channel.
bishop called
.side
of the
The monastery
Tubanus, who
abbey was granted
bj
took
Adalbert,
afterwards, a Bishop Dubanus is recorded in Dubanus episcopus nunc temporis pracssc videtur."
years
" ubi
\
in
of
these
p.
ii.
Cathedral
the
monasteries
great
and insulated by
whom
to
dechanten"
the
Abbot Benignus
tin
river,
befon
littl
Abbot,
I
short
Benedict, to Thirty
\l.aee.
charters as then
Dom
contained
described
Kunstgeschichte,
/.
nominatur, super fluvium
I
infer
establishment at no great distano
Now. amongst
vicinity.
its
in
have emanated from
to
ma) therefore reasonably
Honaugia and Hohenaugia,
lob. naugi l"
bend of the
.1
We
i
b
illumination,
the
Gospels bequeathed
the tenth year of the reign of
was founded ol
the
Kesselstadt,
v.
the
is
it
Rhine, occupying
title
Irish
this
remarkable places
the most
in
particulars
Willibrord.
some
that
most curious portions
the
which are traditionally affirmed St.
no doubt
the eighth or early part of the ninth
Kugler (Kleine Schriften
from
Christoph
in
sanctorum." as
Dul
oportet vos
til/i,
characters by a scribe, evidently
contain various manuscripts from
publice ab omnibus
itselt
.t
1
apprehend, be
I
f
mail)-
in
from
originated
archangeli (whose portrait wi
the
that
Paris Gospels,
by Count
II
also
was one of nine manuscripts of
Libraries Irish
est
to
Holy Ghost, quod natum est
the
on erased
illuminations and
Iiberno- Saxon
1
have belonged to
MS,
[*revi
Epternach. this
the
in
bad not time
1
divinity ol
written
the Vercelli
in
importance sufficient to warrant his name appearing
ol
I
be unique
to
written
noli mtiri [sic] quia dixi
italics
in
wanting.
is
the
de came can.
est est
a volume partly emanating from
in
one of the most
is
natum
ex do natiis
et
are
which are elongated and ornamented
I,
indicating
agi
Gospel
John's
St.
and
the Treves Gospels.
in
century. ol
— "Quod
est
s/>s
of I
miniature of St. John
words here printed
the
>i
scabbard
the
I:
guarded not only
is
two
tin
with
flourishes
little
occupy many of the open spaces and
birds,
margins of the pages.
The
following observations by
Evangelists
the
tions of
will
be
the portion referring to the supposed that
the
a
of
dress
must
interest
Gaelic priest
the toga,
in
—which
these
all
attach
to
the
a
ninth
indicated
is
figures
in
the
seem
to
be
most
Middle Ages
apparel is
century-.
by
as
is
rude,
it
ited
may be doubted
not unfounded:
of
probable, the
rcular
ao
is
represent
to
however
iii
l>
--
THE COTTONIAN BOOK OF PRAYERS. TITUS,
THIS
volume of Prayers, of the
small ting
drawing of
little
on a throne beneath a open book
in
his cowl, standing
rests
MS.
D.
Titus,
At
his
The style SO am inclined
27, that
THIS
Latin,
and
also
fol.
122
represents four
v.
rounded
arches,
This
above
which
scroll
hovers
"Pachom' abb'" and whose also
and
the
hands of the
slightly
Titus,
tinted
D. 26 and
On of which
hand, and
with
page
Christ
is
seated
with
the
right
by
different
in
the
origin,
and
same
the
is
XV.
A.
contains
writers,
in
One
pages of a calendar.
an Angel
with
outstretched
wings,
holds a long scroll inscribed "
is
&c,
two small
only
on
or extended in front of a small church with
first
prostrate figure, over
elevated,
with
The drawing
is
in
all
with
NAT.
the
right
VIII Kl
whose head
is
Ap
inscribed
the fingers stretched out, as are
very carefully executed the
style
is
a similar-sized drawing by the
within
hand
a
red-edged
elevated
in
triple-tongued
vesica
of those
same hand,
holding
piscis,
the act of benediction.
banner, and
at
each
in
of the
outline,
MSS.
a
in
book
On
the centre in
either
his left side
end of the drawing
an is
"" standing on clouds. Tl, drawn with great skill and somewhat the character of those of the Harleian Psalter, No. 603. ,,
boldness, having
arch
Paschal computations,
Prayers,
and green, very much
red
rounded miniatures
27.
the opposite
;
hand
left
other monks.
Ig
a S1V "
left
of the
having
as
the tops of two
at
received by the
I-
that
CALIGULA,
MS.
monks kneeling
hand pointing upwards, whilst the
IdusAp,
resembles
artist.
Anglo-Saxon,
in
drawings near the end of the volume,
monk
very neatly exe-
is
central
the
green, whilst
Homilies and
Anglo-Saxon
The drawing
regard both
to
I
his right hand, whilst
in
represented the small figure of a
band.
his
in
THE COTTONIAN ol
is
strongly
even probably as the work of the same
book
feet
with
tinted
slightly
blue.
26.
Peter (with the head disproportionably small), seated
St.
and holding a book
outlines,
bistre
in
coloured red and
D.
century, contains an
half of the tenth
rounded arch, and holding two keys
on his knees.
an
cuted
triple
latter
"3
(
)
THE COTTONIAN CALENDAR,
THIS
Book
little
which
of Prayers
A.
the
for
6.
of illustrations
series
contains of the employments of our ancestors throughout the year, one being
it
appropriated to and placed across the
The
month,
interesting
especially
is
JULIUS,
figures are about an
high,
the calendar of each
page containing
foot of the
inch
drawn with very great
and
spirit
In January, the operations consist of ploughing with oxen and sowing seed;
pruning
trees,
which are treated
a completely conventional
in
sowing, and raking the ground;
in
manner
March, digging,
in
;
a drinking-party celebrate
April,
delicacy.
February,
in
Easter
the
festival;
May, shepherds tending their grazing flocks; in June, felling and carting timber; in in August, reaping and loading the harvest cart; July, mowing grass and making hay; in
in
September, driving the swine to the forests;
ostrich
logs
ig
from a
The whole of Mr. II. Shaw initial
among
delineated
well
is
stack
these charming
little
in
November, a
in
one of the men
bonfire,
December, thrashing and winnowing
groups have been
"Dresses and
his
in
firewood;
oi
October, hawking (a respectably-drawn
in
the birds);
Decorations,"
engraved with
vol.
i.
On
71
fol.
corn.
by
usual care
his v.
an elegant
is
D.
THE COTTONIAN MANUSCRIPT
THIS
MS.
large
consists of various treatises,
TIBERIUS,
including the
on the Prophets, now bound up separately as Part only the Anglo-Saxon copy of the
poem
astronomical
II.,
V.
B.
Abbot Joachim's Part
whilst
of Aratus, with
I.
treatise
contains not
27 illustrations
its
described above (see Plate 48), but also a variety of chronological and other matters, such as
of kings,
lists
that the
and archbishops of Canterbury
volume was executed
series of illustrations of
Julius,
A.
("Horda," full
6,
but drawn
plates
x.
xi.
in
the occupations of the
much
and
larger
xii).
and
This
is
followed
of wonders and monsters of various kinds,
"
"Bibliographical
Horda,'
tin
pi. xiii.
grotesque
f.
Decameron," 1.
figures
month
coarser), the
coarsely-coloured drawings, two of the best his
bishops of Rochester (by which we learn
;
the latter half of the tenth century)
Strutt
into
the
a calendar, with a
MS.
the
whole of which arc copied by Strutt
by a " Descriptio topographica Orientis,"
all
of which are rudely represented
in
drawn of which were engraved by Dibdin having
also
These monsters, which appear introduced
;
(quite similar to those in
borders of
to
published
one
of
them
in
37 in
his
have served as the prototypes of
illuminated
manuscripts
of a
period, are described at great length, with wonderful properties attributed to them. 3
M
later
I!l!'l
COTTONIAN
[The
Anglo-Saxon
in
poem
the
characters, in
of Beowulf),
MS. VITELLIUS, A. XV.,
tlic
amongst which
a copy of the " Descriptio topographica Orientis,"
is
THE COTTONIAN
THIS
MS.
folio
of the
Anglo-Saxon, and
in
miniatures, each
Canute
style,
the
figures
of a priest
much
3.
Platonici"
two large ill-drawn
1>\
injured: of these,
the
The
design.
the
drawn,
showing
drawings
small
that
the
fol,
11
19
(fol.
in
r.)
illustrating
the
must
figures
MS.
represents
a border of the
executed where opportunities would occur
and representing them
in
contains
v.
presenting a book, and a
other drawing
Among !l
original,
COTTONIAN
monk
a
;
and Ccntaurus, with animals, enclosed
other miniature.
classical
much
text are
have
been
for
seeing
correctly.
VITELLIUS,
A.
XIX.,
contains
the
Life
of
Cuthbert. by Venerable
Bede, in fine Anglo-Saxon characters, the verso of the 8th which has the centre stained purple, upon which has been scratched, with a bard
gure
fi
1
in
tto,
I
some
LThc
and
I
'noxious animals alive
1
preceded
text,
robed vanquishing a lion
fully
representing
from
the
in
but very rudely executed and
style as the
several
C.
"Herbarium Apulei
the
throughout by rudely drawn and coloured figures
illustrated
defaced, complete
three figures,
century contains
occupying an entire page, surrounded by borders of foliage, somewhat
the
warrior,
is
HERBARIUM, VITELLIUS,
MS.
tenth
and animals described
of the various plants
St.
excessively aide both
drawing and colouring.]
their
same
MS., but
preceding
with a series of figures similar to those in the in
and written
of the 4to. size,
tenth century, contains a variety of treatises, &c. (including
the
"'
•' 1 ,
holding a
left
On
colours).
the
with the
maniple (evidently opposite
page
is
right
intended
a
hand
the act of benediction,
in
have
subsequently to
finely-drawn
initial
P,
in
the
been
finished
style
of
the
Lambeth Aldhelm.]
THE ROYAL
V
MS,
HIS M
'
,
''•!'" "';
SM1 ':
and
'
"'
a trcatise
front.sp.ece,
,,
Alexander the Great, "
Phil
,
interesting
,
in
which
are
A.
,.
tart " f 'he
pin,
King It
of is
(British
Museum),
eleventh century contains a
M beautifully
two carefully drawn
work on
ether with his Epistle written,
figures,
and contains an
representing
the
king
THE HARLEIAN PSALTER, small globe with
seated on a throne, holding a
By
three oak-leaves,
hand
act of painting the
and red
ink.
sceptre in his
The
hand of the King.
right
HIS
Hymns
and
Psalter
Latin
contained
is
pi
appears to he
which she
drawn
the
in
black
in
and yellow.
lilac,
BECKET.
a
Library
the
in
a
for
hand, whilst her right
left
figures are delicately
THE PSALTER OF THOMAS
T
her
in
tinted with green,
slightly
and the various parts
terminati
hand,
left
probably intended
f.analc.
painting-brush, with
holds a small
and
elevated,
is
a
crowned
a
(Sophia), holding a small round vase
Wisdom
fication of
stands
side
hi-
of
Corpus Chnsti
No. 411, and has been described as of the quarto size, plates It was formerly covered with silver gilt and as written in the ninth centuryThomas a Becket, as ms, and ultimately became the property of the famous appeals latter
Cambridge,
College,
the volume.
a very old inscription in
in
century,
tenth
half of the
interesting as containing a
and
in
large
St.
(the
finest
of
its
represented in
freedom, and
kind),
&C,
/Ethelwold,
close of the tenth century.
It
and the
that
B
initial
Plate 43.
The
very
carefully
shaded
having
"bowed
over
the
usual,
are
in
we may
with
still
is
order to
rocks.
garment
a
give
to her face,
Anglo-Saxon
artists,
more
is
whilst
date
its
at
the
effect
and,
drawn the
I
am
acquainted), both the greatest
represented
Saviour
up the ghost."
is
Here we
see the
bleeding; the head surrounded with the cruciferous
is
in
to fill
the
up
principal
the
in
judaeor."
too
titulus
As
the attendants
figure,
mounted on
hands, holds up her outer
humpbacked manner adopted by
of the
thi
of the
space, they arc
with covered
left,
S.ne
middle.
The words IHC Rex
Nazaren.
est
in the peculiar
lower part
the
proportioned.
order to the
round
girt
finely
and dignity
Virgin, weeping, to
and
Winchester
the
place
The
bistre.
head and given
the figure
smaller size;
The
with
satisfactorily
executed with the pen with
pinkish
head are unusually arranged—" Hie
drawn of
small
body,
2904.
corresponds
entirely
nimbus; the beard short and forked; the body of the
No.
(the noblest with which
miniature
his
hands, side, and feet pierced, and
slender form
of the further
contains only, as illuminations, the drawing of the Crucifixion
my
as already dead,
so
Psalter
magnificently-written of
is
XLII1
Plate
Books
rather to he
characters, but
contemporary portrait of Eadrig.
THE HARLEIAN PSALTER,
THIS
me
appears to
It
plainly written
is
bod;
Itly .5
N
the later
attenuated.
\OX
.
The
by a
indicated
beloved disciple,
bends eagerly forward
testimomu perhibet,"
M INUS
IKISII
.\N1I
on which
scroll,
written, "
is
catch the
to
Hie
discipulus qui
est
word or sigh of
last
Master,
his
with a quill pen in his hand.
The »raml executed
all
f
styi,
from
a
noble
the following
of
line
to
The
In
New
the
character
the
f
155.)
be of the time of
Edward
St.
and
writing
King Canute.
Martyr,
the
ornamental
the
It
Gregory,
St.
details
closely
it
Minster volumes below described, and ought probably to be assigned
1st,
5
with
1
and
lotst
initial
letter
st.
the
rectangular frame, with Lug.
The commen Books
"Illuminated
MS.
of
his
a group
spi
oi
1
thive
prayers, with a
[Amongst
Mr. Dawson in
this
MSS.
..I
their
At
;
splendidly
within
broad
a
foliage.
Humphreys,
I)
large,
a
h
1-.
of the in
rude
the
his
in
an
101st
and
gilt
kneeling below
Angel under an
and on the opposite page the end of the
Psalm
open space of
coloured
monk
with a
Pachomius, and
9 v.)
outlines.
Mr.
head of Goliah,
Abbot
(ft. I.
by
and the
treated;
in
preserved
\1
ss
which
it
Holkham
at
style.
a series of copies from
Turner, from (I.e.-
the
of
in outlines
Winchester or Canute in
words
erroneously referred to the Arundel
is
it
moreover,
is.
monks,
in
first
enclosed
volume are
(fol.
10
r.)
a series of
gloss.
the fine
fee-Simile contained
similarly
There his
monks, seated,
Saxon
illuminated in the
usual
Benedict and
the
each
given
is
where
cutting off the
Another drawing
feet
very
is
St.
Psalm
1st
is
in
size,
the angles tilled with conventional
Age-,,"
gloriaris"
occupied
have
usual,
as
each of large
at
the
Middle
very rudely executed.
letter,
illumination
arch,
of
it
David,
I
Psalms, of
rosettes
of the
The "Quid
83.
has a
is
from
is
about the year 1000.
illuminated,
the
bottom of the page
the
ARUNDEL LIBRARY.
to
Calendar the names of
the
in
Cuthbert
resembles the
of varied colours
two curves of the second part of
at
No.
dm,
manuscript was supposed by Wanley contains
St.
text
Till-:
Musi
(British
.111.1
the
and exhibits the ordinary writing of the volume.
leaf,
THE LATIN PSALTER OF
THIS
of
finest
entirely in
stroke are ornamented with knot-work
bottom of the main
The Mack
and
largest
ornamented
is
and branches
books, with conventional foliage
dogs' heads.
in
the
capitals,
have hitherto met with,
I
m's head at the juncture of the
top and
the letter, whilst the
terminating
li
by noble golden
B, followed
period which
Hyde Abbej
th,
springing
initial
this
at
I
the
appeared
is
also
a
copy of the Gospels
am onlj acquainted with this through Holkham MSS. shown me by th to
be
less
elaborate!)
ornamented
a
than
M7
(
)
THE GOSPELS OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY. COPENHAGEN. XL/.
Piatt
r*HE -L
volume which has furnished the accompanying
great interest to the student of
Gospels, written with preserved in
which
in
had
MS. now
taken
in
my
volume had copied
portfolio with
his
figure,
various
part,
exhibit
the multitudinous
according to
in
the
all
its
folds
of' the
pleasure
my copy
of the
Lindisfarne one, which
that
the
of the later
artist
from the Lindisfarne one, modifying only period:
the
common
so
only a few days
13)
judge
easily
a miniature of the same Evangelist unique treatment was retained; and on
details,
fashion of
fluttering
possesses
end of the tenth century,
Plate
in
will
was quite evident
it
Matthew
St.
a noble folio copy of the
the
notice,
hitherto
me,
of is
Having completed my drawing
(copied
reader
under
comparing the Copenhagen drawing with
carefully I
1S50, for Denmark-, the
in
same extraordinary and
the
It
.MSS. of
Gospels of Lindisfarni
the
found, in the fine
I
plate
art.
Royal Library of Copenhagen.
the
previous to starting, with which
the luxury of the finest
all
Matthew from
of St.
Anglo-Saxon
thus
whole of the 'garments
the
with the tenth
century Anglo-Saxon
artists.
The
practice of copying
miniatures
libraries,
to
it
is
base been the case
MSS.
mediaeval
in
uncommon practice; but, from now of the greatest rarity to meet
doubtless not of
Here, however, we
the
from
volum
earlier
destruction of so
many
of the early
with examples where this can be
have one
of the
highest
interest,
shown
where
a
'Me feature— namely the introduction of a nimbed head at the si.le of a curtain— found in both drawmgs, and, so far as I have observed, in no other of the hundreds of early figures of the Evangelists so universally introduced into the copies of the Gospels. is
Other instances of PsaIter
'
of
the
this practice arc
copied into the Harlcian
P-
'4.
of
Trinity College.
Paris
Library;
"Archieologia," and
MS. Xo.
Cambridge,
and
my
in
afforded
and again
by the "Aratus," as
48th
in
into
illustrated
in
614, of the twelfth century, of which
I
a
in
little
volume by the Utrecht
thence
partially
and afterwards
Plate,
the present
No. 603, and
Psalter
the
the
into
the
Psalter
24th
volume
Eadwine
No.
1194,
volume of
the'
the
Bodleian have made an extensive series of copies, in
but of which no account has hitherto been published.
The as in into
bonier
in
the /Ethelwold
the semicircles
contemporary I
himself,
below.
but
less
shall, in
the
us
1,
formed of bars of gold and other colours
elaborately finished;
although the foliage introduced of the frame partakes entirely of the treatment of the borders of the that
this
fine
whose character has earned
whom we Ne« Mmster.
and
MSS.
apprehend
drawing befon
the style,
in
a
volume was carried for
subsequent
him amongst
page,
Hyde Abbey Book, and
see,
with
Denmark by Kin- Canute
to
his
countrymen the
his
with another
title
of a
Sunt
wife,
in
Book
of the Gospel, described
connexion
both with
M\M
WIi IRISH
VXON
CRIP!
THE COTTONIAN PSALTER TIBERIUS. XLVI.
PlaU
MS
-[-II IS
1
the
of
(unfortunately
which
all
«
..4
my
In
illustrated.
is
it
IV
after
-nting).
plate
the
for
but
only on account
student, not
Psalms which
the
of
translation
interlineary
\nglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon
the
to
interesting
.Ioul.lv
is
VI.
C.
contains
it
drawings with
of
series
fine
tenth have introduced as the date, the end of the
I
that ol the handwriting is somewhat more recent than century but the character of the possibly it may be halt a century more recent Winchester volumes of that date; so that
ln
vol um
this
commenced
already
fashion
the
,
from which
"Pict. Hist.
is
it
Engl.,"
i.
seated
party
a
,1
spits,
of
Psalter.
he supported by plain columns with foliated I
arches
senes
a
mserting
of
Old and New Testament subjects at the head of the enclosed within rounded volume commences with paschal and lunar computations
pictures both of
a
at
bases and
by the guests (copied
cut
On
336).
fol.
6
a
is
v.
xvi.
pi.
repn ientation of
ol
meat on long
offering
StrutCs " Horda,"
in
singula!
head
the
at
capitals;
servants
with
feast,
f.
1,
and
and Death
Life
on the wing, of former as Christ with a cruciferous nimbus, and standing On ol Plate 33). similar to the drawings in the I.eofric Missal {set
contrasted, the
I
of drawings of which
commem They 1.
the two given in
my
46 are specimens.
Plate
arc
The
Spirit of
a
pair
"Hist attempt
God
grind
the
embod)
to
ind
in
a largt
MS.
folio
David
6.
David playing on
killing the
plate
Christian Art,"
8.
The The
.,.
Christ
7.
on
the ;i,
contest between Christ
British
1.
being an
of
Isaiah,
especially
of
the
5.
Holy Gho
the
copied an
feet;
111
in
like
"Symbols
(Miss Twining,
sceptre.
in
Almighty
David and Saul. (more do
has given the upper part of the
ami Satan
Disciples'
the
4 and
Coliah.
by the
of the
into Jerusalem,
entry of Christ
washing
f.
top
MS.),
22—31. There is a similar drawing Museum, of the Norman
viii.
killing
harp, inspired
the
mding
David
3.
the
Wisdom
of the
Mrs. Jameson's
{see
to
nth chapter
the
description
Bible in the
Lion.
2.
of
Proverbs
world,
of the
the creation
wrong reference
a
poetrj
the
spheres
the
supporting
with
72,
i.
face of the water, the Creator holding
upon the
sitting
compasses
and
Lord,"
our
of
dove
a- a
scales
of
of
dr.r.
wild.,,
my
Angel
'
I
from
above
holds
napkin
large
a
over the head of the Saviour. 10.
The
Betrayal
Christ
ol
II.
bound and brought before
Christ
Pilate.
12.
The
Crucifixion. threi
["hi
Marys
femal
grand
at the
is
figuri
remarkable, and ill,
Sepulchre, copied
1
tomb which
ptre
quite I
h
unlike
aid that
a
open of
in
I
my
us
\
1
k,
Here
plate.
I
The
the
ointmi nt
architecture
foremost of the 'I
he
of the
A tomb
is
any of the other early representations of
Ill
14.
The "Harrowing
15.
The
II
LI!
I
II,;
Hull,"— Christ represented as treading upon the
of
drawing the souls out of the
infernal
Thomas.— Except
Incredulity of
I
and
devils,
regions.
the figure of Christ being rather too tall, perhaps the most pleasing of the series; the figure of the Apostle is very natural, and that of the Saviour very spirited, being seven inches h this
in
is
The Ascension.— The upper part of the The Descent of the Holy Ghost as a
16. 17.
mouth, the
The
IS.
Contest
figure of the
dove, with
between
Michael
St.
and the Dragon, copied
the rest, with a pen, with wonderful
like
by
tained
contrasted
of
fire
issuing
from
its
held by a hand in the clouds.
tail
freedom,
any shading, these designs teach
destitute of
Saviour hidden by the clouds flames
the
later
with
the
Anglo-Saxon
us
drawings of the
Drawn,
plate.
different coloured
in
the
Genedictional
very
of
St.
and
inks,
ideas of composition
They may
artists.
my
in
enter-
advantageously be
.Ethclwold
and the
Missal of Rouen.
To
succeed several
these
"Horda,"
Strutt's
similar
David playing on England,"
those
to
the
in
Psalterium (of which
of musical
Boulogne reduced
a
Psalter),
copy
instalments (copied
in
including
of
given
is
.,
figure
"Pict Hist of
in
321).
i.
These
are followed
ounding below.
the
pages of illustrations
This
enclosed
,s
bj
a
figure of
trumpet on either
a
side,
Christ seated within the Vesica piscis with an ami with the Virgin and two priests standing
an ornamental frame, and
in
is highly finished in thick body-colours, as are the illuminated initials of the principal Psalms. Fol. r. is surrounded with an illuminated border, somewhat 9 in the style of the Canute Gospels and Rouen Book.,, enclosing the commencement of the treatise on the Origin of the Psalms, with a fine large ornamented " 1
D(avid filius Jesse cum David, with his four attendants, three of whom play part of a gleeman, or jt ler throwing ,
&c
to ),
on
up and catchtng this
gleeman
drawing "
The
miniature of
different instalments, whilst the fourth acts the
in
Horda,
three
MS.
xix.
pi.
knives and
be found
to
is
the
" Pict.
The commencement large
size,
balls,
occurs
are enclosed
Hist.
of the
within
Eng,"
1st,
lotst
,s
a pnest,
a rounded arch, and
On
fol.
,25 v
(Another
30.
B.
richly ,s
is
circle;
Agnus
beautiful
robed:
executed
in
the
each of these figures the
same way
Lion is
;
initial ,st
and Dragon
represented
of
letter
Psalm
is
a
and before
standing
beneath
as the drawings at the beginnine B of the
a very remarkable drawing of the Trinity, within a plain quatrefoil the Father is represented as an aged 1.1 right
Dei, holding a
Ghost as a dove
of
322.
i.
man. the
1
holding, book and the as the
illustration
.
and ,o.st Psalms, having the foliated borders. Preceding the 5
volume.
surrounded by a
fol.
Claudius,
5 ,st,
drawing of the Saviour, triumphantly standing upon the
on
MS.
Cottonian
4 fol. , 3 r) The before us has been copied, without the ornamental border by Strutt
and
;
three
the
in
hand raised 1
k.
in
the act of benediction; the
and with
a
cross
erect
on
its
Son
back;
each of the three figures having a cruciferous nimbus
is
left
repr,
hand ed
and the Holy
THE ANGLO-SAXON PSALTER OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE.
THIS
MS.
fine
2;,.
..
text,
red ink, was bequeathed
in
whom
Sir Nicholas Bacon, by
to
Anglo-Saxon
interlinear)
the
and
was presented
it
the
to
Cambi
University of
The
f.
having
for
Latin
equal size with the
by Archbishop Matthew Parker
being
1st
and
style:
Psalms,
and 101st
51st,
1st,
"B(eatus)" of the
Saxon
remarkable
Psalter,
the
of
No. F.
cu.li
ordinary later Anglo-
the
That
an illuminated page,
is
the
size;
large
of
initials
in
border of the Winchester
ornamental
an
each of these leaves
Ipposifc
(
the
ornamented
high,
enclosed within
is
but coarsely executed.
have
usual,
as
inches
six
style,
facing
quadrangular frame, with rosettes at the angles, the figures st Psalm contains within a or David playing on the harp, and his four attendants playing on the fiddle, sackbut, small semicircular kettledrum with two sticks. lute, a horn with stops like a Bute, and a
the
1
of
This drawing
my
in
" Palaeographia,"
beneath
a
which
above
arch,
trefoil
where, however,
Psalmist:
Idithun are placed at the sides of the
who
they occupy two compartments beneath the feet of the King,
original
seen
are
tops
the
himsell
is
and other
towers
,,f
for
the
in
buildings.
and the form of the crown of the King, the harp of an elongated triangular form, Ghost as a dove, flying towards the mouth of the Psalmist, who holds an object
The Holy in
border)
the
(without
copied
is
convenience of space, Ethan and
his left hand,
which max be intended
for the
of the Psalms rather than a plectrum,
roll
are to be noticed.
The
Crucifixion
from
probably
higher than the thin,
being
f,
engaged St.
John
St.
John and
xxi.
m
Lig
inches high. in
Virgin, on
John
St.
Above
bowing
is
Redeemer of
the
the
is
represented too
is
which
head,
disproportionately
is
ct
cross
seen the outstretched
superior, both in proportions
"et ego vidi
across
fillet
The
outlines.
is
tall
and
not
and
dl
testimonium" (Rev.
arms of the cross are Sol and
the
Saviour wear a
the
of the
the
the contrary,
much
is
writing on a square tablet,
24).
figure
delineate
to
The
cross-bars
coloured
in
In the place of the titulus
part of the
attempt
the
represented
is
Vtte."
The upper
hand of the Father. short,
167)
(p. '
on the arms,
inscribed
xxii. 8
Luna weeping.
Both
gem.
The
forehead, with a central
Saviour has a green and red cruciferous nimbus, whilst the Virgin and St. John have the
nimbus
plainly coloured yellow.
The Ascension bli
Us
ising
qui
with
the
right
(p.
;
;,
represents
)
1
bearing
hand,
the forehead.
The
drapery
[81 contains a
standing upon the
the
tall
wand, with
first
is
long
a
scroll,
remarkable neck, and a
nimbus round
figure
till
of di sign.
A
head, and
of the Saviour (more
at the top,
fingers being extended
Q, formed
the
"Sup
Dragon, inscribed:
.1,
of most of the Psalms are
ingi nuitj
left
and
"Ego sum
than all
the
Saviour.
is
All
have the band across
fluttery.
ornamental cross
.\n
initials
verj
Lion and
and second Idle
very
is
inscribed,
seated within a Vesica piscis, which
by two Angels above and two below, of a larger si/e
the five have a plain green or red
A
arms
He
reddo unicuiq: juxta sua opera."
supported
Saviour holding a book with the
the his
in
letter
il
is
borne
engaged
aspidem in
in
than eight inches high), ct
the right
basiliscu
the act of benediction.
drawn with considerable
M, formed
ambulablS.
hand of the Saviour,
spirit,
and show-
of two acrobats tied together by the
of the rotund face of a monk, are especially quaint.
THE ANGLO-SAXON PSALTER. ARUNDEL
HP HIS X
one of the most
is
both on
period,
MSS.
important
iccounl
MS. No.
60.
XLIX.
Plate
ol
of the
Psalter of
lo-Saxon
tl
interlinear)
,,,1
|
inch
the
in
D
O, and
B,
jh
enriched, an.l
is
it
style
of
ornamental
the
of
the
three
Lave the of the Crucifixion, which in the
The
of
plate
4 th
Saviour
has
doth round
been
very
upright, with
middle
the
lour nails
The hand
d'.
central
of the
the
to
a
have part
carefully is
it
of
copied
drawn
Psalm
in
in
blue,
winch,
Plate,
v.
it
coeval
.S
the remarkable
although apparently of
mental dcta.ls with that
is
the
the,
We
interpolation.
H
here see the ried
trees
represented
must do Mr.
I
say that
he
of the
rest
at
the
Tymms,
has
to
hand round
sides Of
a
cloud
twelfth
the
volume, ,he
who
Crucifixion
.
|
1
I
this
-i-
curious
Psalter,
opposite columns,
buppl. No.
m).
of
who
France,
two
a
!„
D
in
so
the
f
entirely
,
)ent
;„
,st
foliage
the
Latin
cross,
each
with
in
my
49th
in
its
orna-
„
K| , inn
Psalm
^
manner which
,
in
this
1
drawing
on the stone, the justice to
and
the
red, blue,
and
picture, in
feet
m
and
and
1
corresponding gre, n
1
ipil
,1
arranged
has the foliage remarkably free
which
,
circles
tall 1.
\
unique feature
facsimiles
remarkable
THE ANGLO-SAXON PSALTER OF pilIS
top
opposite the
5aviour
think, an
my
placed
reproduced
initial
outlines.
thai
ot lL r ol
framework composed of fine
the
either side,
century, agrees
ncement of the toist Psalm, written Whtlst
the
from
at
unconcerned
John stand on
the cross are,
the artist
Shaw
II.
and green
red,
extravagance by French miniaturists and sculptors
excellently
the
ol
representation
Mr.
picture of the Crucifixi
the
body
a
by
to the knees: the hands ami formed of the trunk of a tree with the bl
St.
as
of the
foliage
is
outline
ces more like monkeys than human beings, each holding the disengaged hand having the fingers stretched out widel)
52
well
body reaching
cross,
crown, look on
fol.
as
latter,
tl,
cruciferous nimbus, a
rhe Virgin and
On
the
ornamental
;
Father descends from
of the
the
Opp
coloured.
Arundel Catalogue:
the
perfectly
is
richly
with which
Psal
Winchester volumes,
the
although
Jd,
borders
principal
JEAN.
in
its
movements
DUC DE
BERRI.
and Anglo-Saxon versions are written
in
is preserved in the Bibliotheque Impenale, Paris Latin formerly belonged to John, Duke of Berry, third son of King John was a great collector of curious books, and who, having inscribed his
It
(MSS
GLO-SAXON AND IRISH he
..,,
MS.
a |
rm
a cote du
dancien
Anglo-Saxon ou d
margins
are
in all
is
given
his " Librairie
Thus
Psalm
Silvestre
9
Due
"
France
and
plates,
pen with great
a
iv.
Ps.
altar.
of
figure
a
5,
iv.
7,
Ps.
figure
two v.
damned seen among
a number of the heads of the
I
narrow
Ps.
him.
to
Boulogne.
which he has
in
on
spirit
vii.
the
A
fac-
holding
a
God
chalice,
emerging
and pushing
one with a large
figures,
collected
various pages.
its
sack, and
has the mouth of Hell open, with
5
the
Ps.
flames.
10,
v.
two warriors
from a sketch which
51),
p.
i.
a lion standing over a prostrate man.
2,
croit
in
Saviour with a long rod
the
deadly combat, engraved by Hewitt (Ancient Armour,
communicated
qu'on
and
folio,
Pabeographie universelle " and Count Bastard,
the other with a vase, press eagerly forward.
in
traduction
and
long
arms of
small
Ps.
chin.
his
in
;
with
by a
dime
colonne
a
is
the
of
his
in
made
ram, approaches an
a
It
has a small kneeling figure with the hand of
3
iii.
y a une
11
and which,
Bourges;
of
described as " Lcs hcurcs du due
is
de Berri," has given two
illustrated
is
Ps.
;
supporting
from a cloud forward
bj
du Jean,
ii.
breaking a vase
Latin,
in
i
church
the
to
century,
last
'
marginal sketches
the small
1406
in
many scutcheons
painted
page
simile
it
middle of the
of the
long;
en
reliees
presented
page,
lasl
t
catalogue
M INI
Ps.
vii.
13,
an angel discharging arrows on a guilty couple, &c.
MS.
Several fac-similes of this
are preserved
in
the
plain,
in
The
"
Hoc
legerit scriptu
The
gold or colours.
Psalterii
animx
text
has been
volume thus records
scribe of the
carmen
regis
inclyti
his
name
David Saccr Dei
THE LATIN PSALTER OF is
a Latin
the Harleian Psalter, a smaller
size.
some, with a
lion's
The
purple.
The
Q
of
letter.
drawn is
MSS.
the fine Psalter,
by Thorpe
cognom
(i
illustrated
in
great B, however, of the
head the
a very meagre
plentifully
used
in
the
to cada)
manu
MR. DOUCE,
bequeathed by Mr. Douce
are
Oxon.
B.
quite
1S35).
:
sua conscripsit. Quicumq.
to
No. the
296.
Bodleian Library,
in
the
"Quid
engaged
centre,
43rd Plate, except that the
1st
Psalm
and with the
gloriaris" in
my
contains,
slaying a
large
is
five inches high,
open parts in
the
style,
open
it
are of
and very hand-
of the letter coloured part
of
the tail
letter,
a
of the
has a figure of the Saviour,
treading triumphantly on the Lion and
initials.
style as
initials
dragon, which forms the
Instead of the Crucifixion, as in the Harleian Psalter, in
initials
(Svo.,
and
library;
Appendix
executed about the year 1020, written in the same
No. 2904,
warrior in ring armour,
The
the end of the book
at
pulfpinus
the
in
text,
votum."
sua; expeliat
AMONGST
edited
Museum
British
two plates are given, with other specimens of the Anglo-Saxon Record Commission Report of Mr. Purton Cooper. to the
Dragon.
Gold
leaf
12 3
(
I
THE BODLEIAN GOSPELS,
THIS
is
a
copy of the Latin Gospels, written
fine
No. ato.
in
155.
during the
half of the
first
nth century, remarkable for having two of the usual figures of the
with
igi Is
long
1
Luke
(St.
the
5);
i.
on which
scroll,
wings, drawn in black anil red outlines, with very great
six
One
and correctness.
1
of these
a
is
clouds:
the
female
S
figure,
inches
diebus Herodis n
in
shorter in
is
from
beautiful
tall
inscribed " Fuit
is
Angel
other
towards a hand stretched out
Evangelists
and
proportions,
its
looking upwards
is
bears a scroll
also
it
high,
a rdos"
"Credo
inscribed
viderc bona dni in terra viventium."
The
draperies of both
Angels are exceedingly
the
very characteristic of the art of the into
rounded
little
hillocks,
common
and the drawings are
fluttering,
The ground on which
period.
they stand
raised
is
the designs of this time.
in
THE GOSPELS OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD.
THIS
copy of the
Latin
according to Dr.
Gospels
W
1030, having a drawing of the Visit outlines, in
the at
same the
full
thick reddish purple ink,
subject in
left
side
that
and affixed
to
coarsely
border, also directed
is
sides.
remarkable
is
desk.
the
to
Epistle
four
its
of the for a
in
red,
size
and form, and was executed,
England,
in
Marys
frontispiece.
It
to
The
outside
the is
holding
border
is
a in
blue,
is
a
(some &c.
Prefixed
small
the
which
frame,
good
same large
a
and green outlines
;
tail
semicircularly
in
red
style
as
initial
are
in
Anglo-Saxon),
B(eato
O
at
New
Hymns,
a Calendar, with tables of calculations
the :
at
at
dilated
in
writing his
inkhorn
being
miniature.
The
the
other
the
ornamental
and the
outlines,
pen;
feather
lie
Winchester
is
of which firms the
nearly square volume, written
of which is
general design with
in
the style of the
in
THE COTTONIAN BOOK OP PRAYERS, is
between 1020 and
3),
Sepulchre, executed in
agrees
also delineated
very
contains St. Michael attacking a dragon, the
THIS
v.
the
Angel the three guards
of the
feet
outlines,
Matthew
St. for
in
Pope Damasus commences with
drawn
8vo.
Art
three
Below the
drawing.
The foliage
the
the middle of
of the
46th Plate, except that the figures are reversed, the sepulchre being
of the
length asleep.
except
my
is
ures of
I
Papas
Damaso),
of St. Luke's Gospel tail
of the letter
TITUS,
D.
27.
Minster, containing
the
foot
of
Prayers,
Holy Cross, which we have
Office of the
.
SCRIP!
and of the person in
name
showing the
following lines,
the
whom
for
was
it
who was
Scribe,
of the
who was
written,
monk of New Minster, Abbot of that Monastery
a
afterwards
1035. Frater ]
1
1
.Eli
h
II
97S, and
De
l
>i"
p
recorded
Calendar are
entry,
which
-Ethclwold,
St.
i>
when .Elfwine was young,
must have been written between those two In the
men
compotum
ane
Calendar contains an
the
body of
of the
translation
monachus
I
I
.
Istum
A.D.
1
1
It must have been written
with
1
1
took place
same 90S
in
handwriting,
of the
so that the volume
;
dates.
deaths
the
Paschal Table begins
as the
the
in
monkish
two
of
artists:
— XIII.
Kal,
;
(Mm). "Obitus .Ethcrici m" pict" " and V. Non. (Jul.), " Obit s Wulfrici m° The volume contains two small but very excellently drawn miniatures Crucifixion.
the
one representing
name
inscription again recording the
cmx
lite
whom
for
nearly
who
John looking up
head of the
Saviour
of the
Father
diction.
On
in
outline;
the
top the
Ds omnia secum.
separately
feet
Saviour, writes
the
the legend
— "I
lie
from a
out
stretched
is
the
e
story
the 1 1
with
a
stretched myself,
:
i.
an
similar
both are three-quarter published
is
The which
holding a
crescent,
only
other
etching
Here
E.
in
cross,
the
object in
the
A
figures.
drawing
the
is
by
as
beneath the
feet
a
dove
of one
upon
resting of the
copy of
singular
Dr.
These two drawings
1
have survived, of
and
red,
of the dress
in
which the
colour
employed
drawing of the Crucifixion.
of
alike,
verj
thrust
to
Trinity,
of
Decameron,"
and as aged men, each Third Person
lap,
and with
demon bound
\
for
the
whilst the place of the
her crov
arc
1
from a drawing bv
holding an infant on her
They
flaming crown,
" Bibliographical
ing
is
a
the Catholic Church."
into
both also chained, occupy the two
period.
the
and the hand
and Luna.
representation his
in
are very superior in their style
this
latter
Man,
with
miniature,
this
little
Dibdin,
two
Hades, whilst Arrius and Judas,
which
Sol
the other;
Father and Son arc represented quite
occupied by a figure of the Virgin
Over
opened page. judeor.,"
down whilst
hand, and with the right hand out-
left
with a cruciferous nimbus, and each with a book;
Holy Ghost
are in
Thomson's "Select Monuments of
was published
her Son;
towards
his
in
the waist,
head
the
cloud at the top of the cross in the act of bene-
above the arms of the
side
bends
nailed,
IS Nazarenus rex
holding a globe in one hand and a (laming cornucopia
is
at
book was executed.
the
stands with both hinds open, looking
to is
either
and
knees,
the
to
Virgin,
the
vol.
bearing
.
ma
yElfcinum corpore,
consignet
2
Saviour, with a cruciferous nimbus, and having his garment fastened round
extending
St.
monk
qua guspendens IraxliO
In
The
of the
by
inches
|
pictoris."
the
in
the
chains,
gaping jaws of
lower angles of the
the great majority of those
slightly
but
effectively
the outlines of the flesh
tinted
in
and portions
.25
(
THE BODLEIAN DUNSTAN
THE
which
has
D.
E.
19 (Bodl.
2,
and merits notice
together,
lected
page,
first
MS. N.
Bodleian
attracted
in
considerable
MS.
57S), consists of various fragments col-
work on account of a drawing on the
this
and which purports
attention,
executed by St. Dunstan himself (which has been published by Hickes
and
by Strutt in
recent date
Horda,"
subtus
paginc
huius
drawing represents
iS),
pi.
[owe! part of the draper)' are cut
hod)
the
posed, the
excellently
and flowing, the beard very
bent
—
:
Venite
"
filii
* Virga
recta est
tui."
dm
docebo
vos."
extends from the shoulders to the knees, and
end
drawing
is
somewhat more "
Pictura
Dunstani."
The
hut
high,
drawn
r.
:
the
feet
and
strong outlines,
in
the right shoulder, the hair long
by a red nimbus, marked with a
A
breast.
slender rod terminating
grasped by the thumb and second,
extended: over the rod
is
fastened by a sash
At
is
the waist, the
across
the bottom of the right side of the
kneeling, with the body bent to the ground,
monk
a small side-faced figure of a
is
1^
finely
"Thesaurus"
long-tailed
Sci
have been
to
in his
of a
The left hand holds a book inscribed The upper garment in well-arranged folds
Anglo-Saxon drawings.
as in late
flutter)',
is
surrounded
regni
virga
audite me, timore
It
inches
of which the index
right hand,
and fourth fingers of the
written
8
over
top as a trident formed of three lines of red dots,
third,
"
line.
little
is
upwards towards the
held
is
by a
it
the
manu
propria
erect:
the head
small,
white cross: the right hand at
ofl
head a
inscription
retaining
still
de
est
visa,
Saviour standing
the
by an
as appears
Gothic characters, but
partially
in
scripture
et
"
his
shaded with the right hand, the head tonsured, the cowl resting on the back of the neck: the garment with a red edge above the feet, and with this inscription above " Dunstanum memet clemens rogo xpe tucre. Tenarias me non sinas sorbsisse the figure the
face
:
—
The
procellas."
and the
below the
produced the
initials
S.u
of
the book
writing over the rod and on
over Dunstan
lines
as in
line,
two
the
in
miniated
are
lines
is
narrow Anglo-Saxon
in
letters,
rounded minuscule characters, the r having the first stroke century: the New Minster books of the end of the tenth
same manner as
the
in
nimbus of the
the
iour,
On
the verso
grammatical treatise
of
number
extending to a
the
(Eutex
sheet
containing
of the leaves, followed
a curious series of extracts from the
columns
parallel
of an
miniature
the
Grammaticus), written
early
Minor
date, of
which
a
in
is
hand
the
commencement of a
of the tenth century,
and
by portion of an Anglo-Saxon treatise and Prophets, &C, written in Greek and Latin I
have
given
fac-similes
in
my
"
Pakeo.
graphia."
These iii.)
details
necessary because
are
has affirmed that the
scription
on
MS.
miniature
the
can alone be
Archbishop Dunstan, of the tenth
Mr.
Planche copied
but incorrectly referred
it
the
to the
Dr.
Waagen
(Treasures of Art
in
England,
date indeed the superof the twelfth century (to which and consequently cannot represent the
is
referred),
century.
figure
Royal
of
MS.
Dunstan
in
his
'British
,0 A. .3. which led me,
in
Costumes,
my
"
1
p.
39;
a leographia
Royal .Mb. I he drawing. to state that 'the latter MS. contained a copy of the Bodleian Orders, p. 94) has g.ve-1 drawing is alluded to beneath. Mrs. Jameson (Leg. Monast. her comments with the portrait a not very faithful copy of this drawing, mixing it up in in
Claudius, A,
;,
which she subsequently describes.
\XON AND IRISH MANUSCRIPTS.
THE COTTONIAN DUNSTAN Plate
CLAUDIUS,
MS.
A.
3
-
L.
Pontificate and a series manuscript consists of a variety of pieces, including a drawn up by Synodial Decrees for the reformation of the Church, probably
THIS
of
King /Ethclrcd Archbishop Wulfstan, and afterwards confirmed by
The MS.
with the infulx short
mitre,
towards his right
Three
bi
later
been
affirmed
p.
Holy Ghost, with
his
feet,
head
his
is
other
a small cap-like
a red cruciferous
at
one wearing habit
Benedictine
nimbus,
flies
black,
the
Dunstan
St.
and
"
embrace
figures
hitherto the principal
figure has
Mon.
Mrs. Jameson (Legends
the
a some-
in
inserted,
and pallium, adds that the lower left-hand
close mitre
the
;
whilst
;
another the white
and the third the dress of an Arch-
;
and a similar cap or mitre.* Two of these Across the top of the drawing is
represent
to
overlooking
95).
the
handwriting, " Dunstani Archiepiscopi
what
On
personage.
principal
the
of
kneel pink),
with pale
hop, with a pallium
feel
representing an Arch-
head, wearing the pallium and
the
ear.
ecclesiastics
(slightly tinted
whilst
;
II.
Plate,
50th
beneath a highly-decorated arch.
robes, seated
s
my
in
with a yellow nimbus round
bishop, enthroned,
gorg
miniature, copied
contains the
Ord.,
figure
is
intended for a priest or canon regular. Dr. Rock, as
and relying more
many legends
the "
in
Dunstan,
of St.
that
Church
of our Fathers," has twice repeated the principal figure
on
particularly
presence
the
This miraculous
of the saint.
of
wry
highly for the merciful character of Dunstan,
St. Benedict!,"
which
Maii,
Acta Sanctorum Ord.
iv.
t.
dove as confirming one of the
the
story,
the "
is
costume,
of ecclesiastical
points
interesting
various
illustrating
to
given by the Bollandists
is
364,
p.
in
and which does not speak
the effect that three false coiners
been condemned to death, Dunstan, on his way to perform mass on the festival sentence had of the Holy Ghost (the day of Pentecost, or Whit-Sunday), inquired if the On learning that it had been delayed on account of the high church executed. having
I
,
greewith the
II
The
of
Dunstan abiit."
am
I
hands
to
about
pray
when he adds
historian
vultu,
order
exhilarato
which
immediately gave orders
enraged Archbishop
the
festival,
that
Now,"
offer;"
to
however,
having, "
said
and,
God would
"
(Dunstani)
expansis
Mass was ended, he
retired
I
..,,.
1
initssi, 1
1
the
at
keep the universal
alls
alone,
earliest
trust
I
accordingly,
columba, multis intuentibus, de coelo descendit
caput ejus
performed,
been
he,
et
of
full
et,
quasi the
for
the
We
execution.
that
the
"lota
God
facie,
will
moment when he
Church
in
ad
continual
oratonum, sacrifice
the
accept
lifted
donee sacrificium consumptum
immotis, sub silentio
mansit."
ering,
and there
is
est,
super
had been afforded of
manifestation which
cap,
no t
Iwold,
his
After the
-
1
t
up
peace,
or the Pontificalc of .(Ethelgar, where the episcopal < as a larger In the twelfth urs.
representations
1
i
may
" edictum nonnullis videbatur crudele."
that the
677.)
depressed
in
the midi
I
imkunde,
|>.
\S
!l
Divine grace;
the it,
suspended
remained
it
thoughts of
NslAN
Ul
and having taken in ol
i
that,
ir
servant
this
Us.
U
I
chasuble,
his
ofl
V
BIUS,
Falling
!
was no attend
there
as
the ground,
to
lod.
(
Notwithstanding, however, the supposed confirmation which idea
the principal
that
presence
the
that
first,
represents
figure
of
Dunstan
which was not then the case with but that
I,
and
I;
has
in
third,
the
dove,
symbol (See
ited.
MS.
a fine
in
the
same
in
the
Cambridge
windows of
figure his
Benedict.
which
is
figure
have seen
one
also
is
miniature
he equally
can
Dunstan
for St.
the form
miniature
of
in
folio
28
above described.
do not
it
the
one
in
hesitate 1
in
I
lower left-hand
the
is
mitre and
pallium bespeaking
former prows the early date of the drawing, as depressed, in
surrounded
is
by a
the
drawings
ol
tli
border of branches
arabesque
beautiful
Boulogne
the
is
the
dome,
It
is
of a
figure is
monk
MS. was
seated
hop,
by Strutt (Dresses,
written,
and
drawing
the
and
as
we
architectural details
t
b
pi.
i.
beneath a
writing
same manner as
treated in the
architecturall)
engraved
or
the whorls,
The
Psalter.
and
27),
Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York (1002 that
also similarly
Holy Ghost I
and
an early
In
is
!'
David;
mouth.
nee
doubt that
little
or centrally
Lambeth Aldhelm and
the
of
representing either St
.is
the low, cap-like
;
the
form,
us
so repi
is
head
the
I
might
grand Creel
Rowers, animals, and birds introduced into the middle of
arch, which, with the
believes
his
with
figured
before
of the drawing are very interesting, and carefully
On
towards
flics
been
has
ear,
illustrations
he saw a dove resting
in a
over the
hovers
his
and twelfth centuries.
part of the eleventh
with
the
in
seen of a conical
The
dove
[20)
p.
No. 6S29); and
t,
.1
Catherine
think there
I
saci
[9),
1
ante,
St.
Ghosl
Holj
tin
Jerome
St.
;
high dignity, whilst
the mitre
(Bibl
that
works.
his
I
intended
is
Syria altirms
ol
into
numerous
which
of
\
thi
the pnncip.il
of
Cathedral of Sens, the protomartyr Stephen
the
of
Germany,
In
Ephrem
the Gl
(set
upon
t
representation of the act of
ol
and whispering
shoulders
his
St.
-|-.)
Psalter
window
represented.
ig
on
(MS. Grec, No.
library
stained-glass
n.
personage,
tli
inspiration
of representing the
Great,
St. Basil
the
ol
ai
of the Paris Library
in
or St.
been
resting
;o,
[>.
on the shoulders of
mode
Pop
of
gives to
must
I
sainted
a
indicates
that
mode
a
story
he followed by subsequent oral delivery of the inspired
(to
this
tntries
Thus
of the
that
all
constant
a
Holv Ghost
by the
inspiration
—
this
his white dove,
head
his
second,
;
mouth,
flying
is
it
Dunstan and
-St.
nimbus round
the
hold
to
nl
should disturb
it
—
rounded miniature
given as that of
is
102.;);
in the
and Mr. Planche
made, during the
lifetime
of that
prelate.
[The Habits, died
i.
pi.
miniatures
20 and
copied 26),
A.D. 980) presenting
the his
from lattei
the
MS.
Ilarlci.m
bei
i
.11
book of prayers
as to
St.
monastery of Canterbury, from the frontispiece of the book written, according to
Dr. W.iagen, evidently
at
290S,
that
by Strutt (Dresses
of the
Abbot
Augustine, itself,
the
are of
Elfnoth
.uv\
(who
founder of the
German
Augsburg, about A.D. 1000
—
execution,
1010.]
CR1P1
.i
[Anothei \
,
3
II
Archbishop
being the ,.
figure
.1
Canterbury, from
,|
intended
Dunstan, just
for
St
writers,'
a
the
Expositio
supposition
he
1
"Dunstan.
in
which
is
I
drawn
the
that
the
Benedict.
The MS.,
copy of -Dunstan. of
the
tring
[Ausculta]
as representing
century."
twelfth
the
un
Obs
n of the tenth century, described
3.
of
dunng
p
arttst.
>n
the
130.
p.
two large rude and much defaced illuminated been reproduced m in p. 47. have also
volume, described above
this
in
add-on
a subsequent
strong confirmation by my discovery, of the tenth century, has received apparently by the work through the press, of a miniature f
at_
XP1
London.
Antiquaries of
Society of
of the
in
occurs
to.
illuminated page of the
chromolithograph, faos.m, e from the d, This page has been reproduced in part of the "Vetusta Monumenta Mr. Gruner. for the forthcoming
s,
,
here referral
mice
the lower part Of the grand
«
J4 („ot' ,34).
of cats and
The group
23
line
"where the heathen."
43, read
line
6,
«
P
drawing, of Miss Stokes, for the Soctery of facsim.lc by Mr. Gruner, from the
Annquanes
of London.
P
of
MacRegol,
grand
St.
Luke down
arc surrounded by rows of
P.
For
4.
my
press,
Gospels, written entirely
the
attention has been
Libra
of the Bodleian
librarians
the
in
of those
style
Ik
and John. however, only the Gospels of Saints Luke
Mac
Gospels of
P. So, line
of the
4tO. volume of
from having been pasted Style of the
Macray, one
containing,
page of
initial
W.
fine large
remains of a
work through the
the progress of this
During
56
directed by the Rev.
remains, and
now
only
the
bonk;
Chad.
The
the cover of
to
Regol and
red dots. stories,
Its
St.
it
press-mark
unfortunately it
is
ornamented
initials
much
is
entire!)
1
injured in the
of the verse, thro
Rawlinson B. N. 167.
is
read
plate my " Palseographia sacra" I devoted an article and a Ouen and Bishop Kicemarchus, giving a facsimile of the commei The two other illuminated pages ol l'salm from the latter MS.
to the
In
87.
Psalters of St.
I
of the
51st
volume, containing the beginning of the fac-simile
1st
and .o.st Psalms,* haw
by Mr. Gruner, from the drawings of Miss Stokes,
for the
beer
reproduced
in
Society of Antiquaries
of London. Plate
C
1,
line
of
3
having been omitted
•
the
text,
some
eventh
for
CSAIA,
ESAIA
read
1
the
read
century,
Fo!
PI.
1;.
For menu, read
PI.
22
For Durnon, read Diirnan.
PI.
28.
For Penetential, read
PI.
47.
For Winchester Cathedral,
kulh century.
See
p.
4'.
The numeration of
the Psalms d
Roman use;
of
the
" otc
m
thc
>i
|
Prayer-boot from thai of the
cross-bar
copies of the Plates.
1;
PI.
present
in
maiiK.
Penitentiale.
I'
the 5. stand 101st
read
in
-
collect
I
orpus
(
'
as
found a third,
Monastery of St Isidore of
liri
iti
at
I ,
that
wise
in 1
which e
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read
i
Ixford,
the -
2
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I
objects of
Royal Irish Academy,
now bi
I,
rtging
.
,
oil have most probably been affixed to shrines or 01 these the most rem,, reli
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