The Origin, Progress, And Present Condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain And Ireland
The Origin, Progress, And Present Condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain And Ireland
William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor
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Montacute, Digitized by Google ILLUmNAT£D MSS, 166 earl of Shrewsbury, and presented by him to his hwJy Elizabeth. It was begun in 1360, the buildings and figures represented are all of the fourteenth century. The Histories of Froissart, in the Harleian MSS. British Museum, large folio, written about 1490. It is in high preservation. History of the deposition of Bichard II. — Har- leian MSS. It has sixteen illuminations, superior to the Froissart, and exquisitely finished. It be- longed to Char...les d^Amon, count of Maine and governor of Languedoc, and has his autograph ; it bears sufficient internal evidence of its authenticity. Legenda Aurea, the largest sized folio, bound in green velvet with silver clasps. It was translated into French by Jean de Vignay at the request of Jane, wife of Philip de Valois, about 1330, and con- tains more than two hundred representations of the martyrdom of saints. After the French revolution it was brought to England by Gilbert Heathcote, Esq. and now belongs to the duke of Norfolk.
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