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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 52

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d, prevailed about the same period in the countries of eastern and northern Europe. The books are of a very different but equally ungraceful character. The work is not so minute or complicated, but the lavish use of gold distinguishes them. Sometimes a page is written in gold letters on vellum… … Heraldic Lion.

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