Front matter

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PALÆOGRAPHY

NOTES UPON THE

HISTORY OF WRITING

AND THE

MEDIEVAL ART OF ILLUMINATION

BY

Bernard Quaritch

Extended from a Lecture, delivered at a Conversazione of the Sette of Odd Volumes, at the Galleries of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 12th December, 1893

London

PRIVATELY PRINTED

1894

This Volume is

Dedicated to my excellent friend

Brother Alexander T. Hollingsworth,

ARTIFICER, and PRESIDENT OF

The Odd Volumes, 1893-94,

AND TO

THE BRETHREN OF THE SETTE

WITH WHICH

I have been united since 1878 in O. V. bond,

BY

BERNARD QUARITCH,

Librarian to the Sette.

London, 15 Piccadilly, March 31st, 1894.