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Illuminated manuscripts in classical and mediaeval times, their art and their technique (1892)

Middleton, J. H. (John Henry), 1846-1896 · Cambridge, University press · leaf 170

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arsh in colour ; and the illumi- nated borders, with which they are lavishly though cheaply decorated, have the same forms of foliage and fruit repeated again and again in dozens of manuscripts, which all look as if they had come out of the same workshop. It must not however be supposed that all… … Fig. 26. Miniature executed for King Rene of Anjou about 1475. of the fourteenth century, yet in their own way, as pictorial rather than decorative illustrations, the French miniatures of

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