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Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson ..

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · 1907 · London, Printed at the Chiswick Press · 16 pictures

A 1907 facsimile volume printed at the Chiswick Press in London by Henry Yates Thompson, a collector, reproducing one hundred illuminated manuscripts from his own library. The plates show medieval book pages: a bordered calendar-style page with saints in roundels, a prayer book leaf with a rider and a kneeling figure, and gold-dotted floral borders framing small scenes, which a designer could draw on for ornamental framing and miniature-style panel layouts.

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · Illumination of books and manuscripts

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