Palæography / Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination

by Bernard Quaritch

CHRIST IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
From the Prayer book of Grey, Marquis of Dorset, about 1470.

ADORATION OF THE MAGI.
From an Italian Chorale written about 1530-40.

AN ABBOT AND MONKS KNEELING BEFORE AN ALTAR.
From an Evangeliarium illuminated in Flemish style by a German hand in 1548.

MINIATURE OF THE ASCENSION.
From the Suabian Breviary written at Ottenbeuern about 1160.

THE FIRST PAGE OF THE OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN.
From the Bentivoglio Prayerbook, written in Italy about 1520.