[Plate XXIV.]—Inscription cut in Stone by A. E. R. Gill, 1903 A.D. Reduced (316 scale). Note.—To view these incised letters have the light on the left of the plate (or cover with thin tissue paper).
NOTES ON THE PLATES Plate XIX, Continued
THE INITIAL A, its frame, the frame of the border, and the “furred” berries (
) are all in burnished gold, outlined black. The “white vine pattern” is rather simpler, and has a rather thicker stalk (in proportion) than that in the previous plate (see above). Its treatment is very similar, but it may be noted that the border is in this case attached to the Initial, and the pattern has almost an appearance of springing from the Initial. The pattern—save one escaped leaf—is straitly confined, by gold bars, throughout the length of the text, but at the ends it is branched out and beautifully flourished in the free margins above and below. These terminals of the pattern having a broad blue outline (dotted white) may be said to carry their background with them.