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Illustrations of one hundred manuscripts in the library of Henry Yates Thompson .. (1907)

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 · London, Printed at the Chiswick Press · leaf 15

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NOTES ON THE PLATES THE first volume to be mentioned here is the most modern of all my collection, the little jewelled and enamelled pendant, which is figured on the title-page and contains fifty tiny vellum pages. … Its date is about 1530, and it contains, after the customary verses in Latin from St. John’s Gospel, La protestation del Emperador, written in Spanish. This is a devout “ creed ” or profession of the Catholic faith, and, as we know of no other emperor at that date whose prayers B 1

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