Sir Frederic Madden, in the Introduction to Illuminated Ornaments, fol. 1833, and Mr. Ottley, in Archæologia, vol. xxiv. art. 1., have both written very minutely on the subject of illuminating, but their observations are too long for quotation.
E. G. B.
I remember reading in an old French work the process used in illuminating parchments, and remember that the gilding was laid upon garlic juice; it might very possibly be diluted with proof spirits of wine; at all events, no parchments can bear water at whatever time they may have been prepared: the process of making them wear out with water would turn them into leather. The work I allude to was brought out, I recollect, under the auspices of the French Academy.
W. T.
"I hear a lion," &c. (Vol. vii., p. 205.).—These lines (corrupted by your correspondent Sagitta into five) are two couplets in Bramstone's lively poem of the Art of Politics. They are a versification of a shrewd question put by Colonel Titus in the debate on the celebrated bill for excluding James Duke of York.
C.
The Art of Politics, by the Rev. Mr. Bramston, contains the following lines, which will, I apprehend, give your correspondent the required information:
"With art and modesty your part maintain;
And talk like Col'nel Titus, not like Lane.