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"COPYRIGHT BY THE DELPHIAN SOCIETY, CHICAGO"

THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI.

Reproduced for our Members through the courtesy of The Newberry Library, Chicago

This illuminated manuscript represents the work done by French monks in the early part of the fourteenth century. The border, containing as it does many grotesque figures scattered through its foliage, indicates this, as also the style of the faces in the miniature work. This is taken from one of the many "Book of Hours" and was the page used for the "Sext Hour," a full description of illuminated manuscript will be found Part IX, page 101.