A PRIMER OF The Art of Illumination
Reading edition
For the Use of Beginners;
WITH A RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE ART, PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR ITS EXERCISE, AND EXAMPLES TAKEN FROM ILLUMINATED MSS.
BY
F. DELAMOTTE.
London:—E. & F. N. SPON, 16, BUCKLERSBURY.
1860.
LONDON: PRINTED BY BOWLES AND SONS, GEORGE STREET, MANSION HOUSE, E.C.
Contents.
page.
Preface v.
PART I.
History, Definition, and Characteristics of Illumination vii.
Reference to Specimens at the British Museum xxvii.
PART II.
Practical Directions xxxii.
Colours xxxiii.
Appendix xliv.
Plates.
Monograms: 7th and 8th centuries i.
From the Bible of Charles the Bald, 9th century ii.
From a Bible, 12th century iii.
Opus Anglicum iv.
Hours of S. Louis v.
Les Merveilles du Monde, 1409 vi.
Chronicles of England, Edward IV. vii.
Hours of Henry VII. viii.
Hours of Anne of Brittany ix.
14th and 15th centuries—Initials x.
Ditto xi.
Italian Initials xii.
Outlines of the above xiii. to xx.
