[19] Notice des Émaux, &c., du Musée du Louvre, par M. de Laborde, 1857, p. 99.
[20] Philostratus, Icones, i. 28:—the horsemen are described as—ἀργυροχάλινοι καὶ στικτοὶ καὶ χρυσοῖ τὰ φάλαρα. Ταῦτά φασι τὰ χρώματα τοὺς ἐν ὠκεανῷ βαρβάρους ἐγχεῖν τῷ χαλκῷ διαπύρῳ, τὰ δὲ συνίστασθαι καὶ λιθοῦσθαι, καὶ σώζειν ἃ ἐγράφη.
[21] Augustus W. Franks, ‘Vitreous Art,’ p. 14 in Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, a book which was brought out in connexion with the Manchester Exhibition of 1857.
[22] Mr. Arthur Evans recognizes a Keltic physiognomy in the eyes of the icuncula; but for me the eyes are as if they were not, being so much sunk out of their place, that through infirmity of sight I am unable to verify them.
[23] Appendix B.
[24] Appendix C.
[25] And þa comon hi ymb vii niht to londe on Cornwalum, and foron þa sona to Ælfrede cyninge.
[26] For the Irish illumination above referred to I have relied upon Facsimiles of Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. By J. O. Westwood. London, 1868. Plate XI.
[27] ‘The back, or reverse, is a plate of gold lying immediately upon the back of the miniature, and this is beautifully worked in foliage.’ Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A., in the Reliquary for October, 1878: vol. xx, p. 66.
[28] Here I follow the old copy of this drawing in Hickes’s Thesaurus (1705) facing p. viij.