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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.
    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.
    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.
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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.

    By W. J. (William John) Loftie

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    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.

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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. - W. J. (William John) Loftie

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      Title: 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.

      Author: W. J. Loftie

      Release Date: August 6, 2012 [EBook #40423]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LESSONS IN THE ART OF ILLUMINATING ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Matthew Wheaton and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      ILLUMINATING.

      By W. J. LOFTIE

      LESSONS IN THE ART OF ILLUMINATING.

      Plate IX.—FACSIMILE PAGE OF A BOOK OF HOURS, 15th Century.

      VERE FOSTER'S WATER-COLOR SERIES.

      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.

      With

      PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS,

      AND A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE ART,

      By

      W. J. LOFTIE, b.a., f.s.a.,

      AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF LONDON, MEMORIALS OF THE SAVOY PALACE, A CENTURY OF BIBLES, A PLEA FOR ART IN THE HOUSE, ETC.

      London: BLACKIE & SON; Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin.

      The Colored Illustrations are Printed by W. G. BLACKIE & CO., Glasgow, from Drawings by J. A. BURT.

      The Ornamental Border and Initial of the Title-page are interesting examples of Italian work of the fifteenth century. They are from the Harleian Collection, British Museum (3109 and 4902) different works, but evidently executed by the same hand. The Colors are represented in the engraving by means of lines (as explained on page 18), so that by the aid of these directions the student can reproduce them in the colors employed in the original MSS.

      CONTENTS

      The outlined initials on pp. xv, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29, and 33 are taken from a manuscript of the fifteenth century, preserved at Nuremberg. The originals are very highly but delicately colored, the ground being gold; the body of the letter, black; and the scroll work and foliage pink, blue, green, and yellow. The book, which is dated 1489, is a treatise entitled the Preservation of Body, Soul, Honour, and Goods. The tailpieces throughout represent heraldic animals, from the Rows Roll and other authentic sources.

      Heraldic Boar.

      THE ART OF ILLUMINATING.

      GENERAL SKETCH.

      ERHAPS the art of Illumination, although it is closely connected with that of Writing, may be entitled to a separate history. Men could write long before it occurred to them to ornament their writings: and the modern student will find that what he looks upon as genuine illumination is not to be traced back many centuries. True, one or two Roman manuscripts are in existence which may be dated soon after a.d. 200, and which are illustrated rather than illuminated with pictures. But the medieval art, and especially that branch of it which flourished in our own country, has a different origin,

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