Art Treasures of the Lambeth Library: A Description of the Illuminated Mauscripts, EtcB.M. Pickering, 1873 - Počet stran: 108 |
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Strana 72 - And the Angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, and said unto me, "What seest thou?" And I said, "I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: and two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
Strana 17 - DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. 94 Plates, beautifully Coloured, a profusion of Initial Letters, and Examples of Curious Ornament, with Historical Introduction and Descriptive Text.
Strana 72 - fhout, O daughter of Jerufalem. Be" hold, thy king cometh unto thee : he is " juft, and having falvation ; lowly, and " riding upon an afs, and upon a colt, the
Strana 16 - ... the text itself a picture, the picture a homily — the skill of the artist has exhausted itself in setting forth in positive images the great scheme of salvation. Sometimes these miniatures spread in solemn hierarchy over a whole page; oftener, and truer to their name, they nestle in the spaces of initials, or capital letters, and in the medallions of intricate borders. Now they look upon us with the forms, costumes, and even the countenances as of another world ; then again they claim affinity...
Strana 26 - ... several of which were printed in the earlier ages of typography. The English metrical version of this legend, now printed for the first time, is extracted from the early metrical series of Saints' Lives, which is so frequently met with among English manuscripts, and which appears to have been composed towards the end of the thirteenth, or beginning of the fourteenth century. The copy from which it is here printed, (MS. Harl. No. 2277, fol. 41, v°.) is of the earlier part of the fourteenth century....
Strana 16 - ... labour spent in vain : their homes for centuries were in the silence of the sanctuary ; their authors have mingled with the dust of the convent cemetery ; over them have passed the rise and fall of the kingdoms of this world ; but through them history has been transmitted with a continuity and fullness not to be found in any other forms of Art, or, it may be said, in any form of literature. For pictures have speech and meaning where text is obsolete or obscure. ' The pencil speaks the tongue...
Strana 40 - ... half-penny [a year], and a man's load weekly for a farthing. 33 WILD BIRDS AT CHARING CROSS The Brut, EETS, 1908, p. 604. And aftyr that [about 1471], ther bred a Raven on Charyng Crosse at Londen ; and never was seen noone brede there before. And aftyr that, cam a gret dethe of Pestilence, that lastyd iij. yer; and peple dyed myhtely in every place, man, woman and chylde ; on whois soulys God have mercy ! Amen 1 34 THROUGH ITALIAN EYES Italian Relation of England, AD 1500 (Camden Soc.
Strana 20 - Domini." cester. twelfth and thirteenth centuries, contained the whole offices of the canonical Hours throughout the year : of the great festivals, the saints-days, the sundays, and the week-days. These were arranged under their respective days, with rubrics directing to certain prayers, hymns, or psalms which occurred frequently, or to the psalter which formed a portion of the volume. The rubrics of breviaries in manuscript will be...
Strana 77 - Its general aim was, to unite the professors of Idolatry and the Jews and Christians in the worship of one God (whose unity was the chief point inculcated), under certain laws and ceremonies, exacting obedience to Mahomet as the prophet. It was written in the Koreish Arabic, and this language, which certainly possesses every fine quality, was said to be that of paradise.
Strana 16 - ... positive images the great scheme of salvation. Sometimes these miniatures spread in solemn hierarchy over a whole page; oftener, and truer to their name, they nestle in the spaces of initials, or capital letters, and in the medallions of intricate borders. Now they look upon us with the forms, costumes, and even the countenances as of another world ; then again they claim affinity by some touch of that common nature which makes all men kin. Nowhere is space lost, either within or without these...