Jones, Owen [Ill.]; Humphreys, Henry N. [Bearb.]: 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 (London, 1849)

DESCRIPTION OF MS.

A FRAGMENT OF A MISSAL

THE POSSESSION OF MR. OWEN JONES.

The two pages forming the opposite plate are fine specimens of one of the various styles of illumination that were developed
in Flanders about the beginning of the 16th century. They were probably executed between 1510 and 1530, and are formed by a
more symmetrical arrangement of the ornaments that formed the main features of Flemish illumination during the latter half
of the 15th century. The picture, " The Bearing of the Cross," is in the style of Wierix, and is a good specimen of the art of the
period. The medallion pictures of the border are new features, first introduced about the beginning of the 16th century;
but the large initial, D, in the other page, still preserves the style of a preceding era. The borders are very fine examples
of the ornamental feeling of the period to which they belong, recalling in some particulars, but much more floridly treated,
the small prayer-book of the Duke of Anjou, executed as early as about 1380; but in this modern version of the style, the angular
ivy leaves have been superseded by scrollings founded on those of the acanthus, as treated in Roman art.

The fragment from which our two specimens are taken, contains several leaves of a very fine manuscript, purchased by Mr. Owen
Jones in Granada, which was doubtless executed for some wealthy Spaniard, during the Spanish occupation of Flanders.

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