Category: Art
The Editor of the following pages has no desire to offer them in competition with the numerous and useful Handbooks on Illumination already published. All those that the writer has met with--some eight or ten--have been almost exclusively directed to the study of Missal Painti...
The Editor of the following pages has no desire to offer them in competition with the numerous and useful Handbooks on Illumination already published. All those that the writer...
2. Part 2[Sidenote: Water-gold Size.] [Sidenote: Gold-leaf.] Leaf-gold is considered the most durable, is beautifully bright, and repays the trouble of its application. A "book" containi...
3. Part 3The symbol also of wisdom, innocence, faith, joy, integrity, humility: of glory, perfection, and regeneration; for white contains all colours. Solomon says, [Sidenote: Eccles. i...
4. Part 4And to the young I would earnestly say,--cherish always a feeling of reverence on this subject of illuminating sacred texts. Let it be considered not as a trivial, passing amuse...