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Title: A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Libraries Libraries Bibliography Literary journeys Literary journeys
Publisher: London : Shakespeare Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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MS. to havebeen executed. The Same : of the same date—which I am per-suaded was copied by each succeeding scribe. Theilluminations are here generally of a very inferior cha-racter : but the first has much merit, and is by a supe-rior hand. The text is executed in a running secretaij^Gothic. There are two other MSS. of the same workwhich I examined; and in one of vvhich the well knownsubject of the wheel of fortune is perhaps representedfor the first time. It usually accompanied the printededitions, and may be seen in that of our Pynson, in1494,* folio. I suspect, from one of the introductoryprefaces, that the celebrated Laurent le Premier Faitwas the principal scribe who gave a sort of fashion tothis MS. in France. I happen to have only threearticles in History to subjoin—which are as follow. Ptolem^us, Latine. A magnificent MS.—if sizeand condition be alone considered. It is howeverprecious in the estimation of the Collector of por- * See Bill, Spenceriana, vol. iv. p. 421. *N
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1L0UII3 T!EE T-^:EXTTM» From ail ilhnniiiatpd Manuscript of rt«ieray, in thiKoyal Librarv at Pari- ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. 215 traits, as it contains one of Louis XII;—so apparentlyfaithful that I cannot resist the transmission of it in thisdespatch.* This portrait is nearly in the centre of thefrontispiece to the book ; facing a Latin address toPope Alexander V. Behind the monarch stand twomen ; one leaning upon his staff. A large gothic win-dow is above. A crucifix and altar are beneath it.There is but one other similar illumination in thevolume ; and each nearly occupies the whole of thepage — which is almost twenty-three inches longby fourteeen wide. The other illumination is hardlyworth describing. The scription of the MS. is in alarge lower-case gothic character; and the maps at theend are coloured in the usual fashion of the day—ingreen and blue, representing water, ^his noble vo-lume, which almost made the bearer stoop beneath itsweight, is bound in wood :—covered w

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