A Primer of the Art of Illumination for the Use of Beginners / With a rudimentary treatise on the art, practical directions for its exercise, and examples taken from illuminated mss.

by F. Delamotte

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A PRIMER OF
The Art of Illumination

For the Use of Beginners;

WITH
A RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE ART, PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR
ITS EXERCISE, AND EXAMPLES TAKEN FROM ILLUMINATED MSS.

BY

F. DELAMOTTE.

London:—E. & F. N. SPON,
16, BUCKLERSBURY.

1860.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY BOWLES AND SONS,
GEORGE STREET, MANSION HOUSE, E.C.

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Contents.

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page.
Preface	[ v.]
PART I.
History, Definition, and Characteristics of Illumination	[vii.]
Reference to Specimens at the British Museum	[xxvii.]
PART II.
Practical Directions	[xxxii.]
Colours	[xxxiii.]
Appendix	[xliv.]
Plates.
Monograms: 7th and 8th centuries	[i.]
From the Bible of Charles the Bald, 9th century	[ii.]
From a Bible, 12th century	[iii.]
Opus Anglicum	[iv.]
Hours of S. Louis	[v.]
Les Merveilles du Monde, 1409	[vi.]
Chronicles of England, Edward IV.	[vii.]
Hours of Henry VII.	[viii.]
Hours of Anne of Brittany	[ix.]
14th and 15th centuries—Initials	[x.]
Ditto	[xi.]
Italian Initials	[xii.]
Outlines of the above	[xiii. to xx.]

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