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Lessons in the art of illuminating : a series of examples selected from works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington Museum (1895)

Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911, author · London ; Glasgow : Blackie & Son · leaf 32

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ter of the Rolls. The initial T on the previous page is from a beautiful Nuremberg treatise of 1489 on the “ Preservation of Body, Soul, Honour, and Goods.’' On the back of Plate HI. are two pages in outline from a small Book of Hours in the collection of Robert Young, Esq., Belfast. This kind of… … Hart, Badge of Richard II.

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