THE
ILLUMINATED BOOKS
OF THE
MIDDLE AGES
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
OF THE ART OF ILLUMINATION,
AS A DISTINCT BRANCH OF PICTORIAL ORNAMENTATION,
FROM THE IVth. TO THE XVIIth. CENTURIES.
BY
HENRY NOEL HUMPHREYS.
ILLUSTRATED BY
a series of examples, of the size of the originals,
selected from the most beautiful mss. of the various periods,
executed on stone and printed in colours
by
J
OWEN JONES.
LONGMAN, BROWN,
LONDON:
GREEN,
MDCCCXLIX.
AND LONGMANS.
ILLUMINATED BOOKS
OF THE
MIDDLE AGES
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
OF THE ART OF ILLUMINATION,
AS A DISTINCT BRANCH OF PICTORIAL ORNAMENTATION,
FROM THE IVth. TO THE XVIIth. CENTURIES.
BY
HENRY NOEL HUMPHREYS.
ILLUSTRATED BY
a series of examples, of the size of the originals,
selected from the most beautiful mss. of the various periods,
executed on stone and printed in colours
by
J
OWEN JONES.
LONGMAN, BROWN,
LONDON:
GREEN,
MDCCCXLIX.
AND LONGMANS.