Elementary instruction in the art of illuminating and missal painting on vellum : a guide to modern illuminators, with illustrations in outline as copies for the student
An 1860 London instruction manual by D. Laurent de Lara, published by Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, teaching modern illuminators to copy medieval-style decoration on vellum. The pictures are outline scroll borders and strapwork bands with grotesque masks, winged figures and foliate tendrils, offering a designer historicist border motifs to adapt for ornamental frames and dividers.
