Chapter 21

ENGLISH ILLUMINATION FROM THE TENTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Organisation of the monastic _scriptoria_--Professional outsiders: lay artists--The whole sometimes the work of the same practitioner--The Winchester Abbeys of St. Swithun's and Hyde--Their vicissitudes--St. Alban's--Westminster--Royal MS. 2 A 22--Description of style--The Tenison Psalter--Features of this period--The Arundel Psalter--Hunting and shooting scenes, and games--Characteristic pictures, grotesques, and caricatures--Queen Mary's Psalter--Rapid changes under Richard II.--Royal MS. 2 E. 9--Their cause.