TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
See Transcriber's [Endnote] for details of this transcription. Scans of the original printed book are available from archive.org/details/writingillumina00john.
THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES
OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS
EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY
WRITING & ILLUMINATING,
AND LETTERING
Frontispiece.
A SCRIPTORIUM
This drawing (about two-fifths of the linear size of the original) is made from a photograph of a miniature painted in an old MS. (written in 1456 at the Hague by Jean Mielot, Secretary to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy), now in the Paris National Library (MS. Fonds français 9,198).