Palography Notes Upon the History of Writing And the Medieval Art of Illumina
Palography Notes Upon the History of Writing And the Medieval Art of Illumina
Bernard Quaritch
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M. , and in Flanders and Holland Ghetijden. The Gebetbuch of Germany belongs chiefly to the fifteenth century, and was nearly always in German, while in France, Flanders, and England, prayers in the vernacular only crept in gradually here and there. (In Italy the book always continued to be written in Latin only. ) In the English Hours or Primer the vernacular portions became at last so important that it was found advisable to issue many of the printed Primers in the sixteenth century in biling...ual form, Latin and English ; and it was undoubtedly this tendency both in England and in Germany which produced the Reformation. It was not so much the desire for a Reforma- tion of the Church even Boccaccio, himself a churchman, 57 and many others of his kind had wished for that as an invincible demand for a vernacular liturgy, which widened through opposition into an eagerness to sweep away every- thing that opposed it. Hence the break with Home, which still imperiously demanded the uniformity that could only be maintained by the use of a single language throughout Europe.
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