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BONIFACE.
201
The pontiff is clothed in scarlet: the cardinals are in purple: the kneel-
ing priest is in blaek; and the kneeling figure, at the extremity, in
blue and purple. An ultramarine blue sky forms the back ground; and
the colouring of the whole is as vivid as if just executed. The square
part beneath is filled by the prefix, thus :—the first line being in red:
^ncipit Bcrtujr ItBrr Dccrctaiiu.
4EpMcopnu
At the bottom of this first page of the work, which contains only the
two preceding lines of text, and beneath the copious commentary by
which it is surrounded, is another elegant illumination; of which also
the reader is here presented with a wood-cut fac-simile of the outline:
In the original, both St. George and the Dragon are painted black.
The work concludes on the recto of s xi, with this colophon :
%ibct £ertu£ tiecretaJium una cum apparatu bomini
gjoanniiS antiree £inguiarem iuri£ utriu^q; tioctorem
iiominum 3Uejcantintm neuum in patauino qumnaoio
iuri^ eanonici iecturam ortiinariam obtinentem Mu
gentistsime ementiatug friiciter erpitrit: mcnctij£lFrcfeu3
opera atq$impcn£a $ icolai gjettgon <0aiiici. a^.ccccJjcjrtii.
The register is on the recto of the following and last leaf. The sig-
natures run thus : a (not marked) 9; e, f, and n, each 6; r, 10; s, 12 :
the remainder, 8 leaves. In blue rnorocco binding.
VOL. III.
D D
BONIFACE.
201
The pontiff is clothed in scarlet: the cardinals are in purple: the kneel-
ing priest is in blaek; and the kneeling figure, at the extremity, in
blue and purple. An ultramarine blue sky forms the back ground; and
the colouring of the whole is as vivid as if just executed. The square
part beneath is filled by the prefix, thus :—the first line being in red:
^ncipit Bcrtujr ItBrr Dccrctaiiu.
4EpMcopnu
At the bottom of this first page of the work, which contains only the
two preceding lines of text, and beneath the copious commentary by
which it is surrounded, is another elegant illumination; of which also
the reader is here presented with a wood-cut fac-simile of the outline:
In the original, both St. George and the Dragon are painted black.
The work concludes on the recto of s xi, with this colophon :
%ibct £ertu£ tiecretaJium una cum apparatu bomini
gjoanniiS antiree £inguiarem iuri£ utriu^q; tioctorem
iiominum 3Uejcantintm neuum in patauino qumnaoio
iuri^ eanonici iecturam ortiinariam obtinentem Mu
gentistsime ementiatug friiciter erpitrit: mcnctij£lFrcfeu3
opera atq$impcn£a $ icolai gjettgon <0aiiici. a^.ccccJjcjrtii.
The register is on the recto of the following and last leaf. The sig-
natures run thus : a (not marked) 9; e, f, and n, each 6; r, 10; s, 12 :
the remainder, 8 leaves. In blue rnorocco binding.
VOL. III.
D D