CHAPTER IX. Page 126 to 146.

FRENCH MANUSCRIPTS.

The age of Saint Louis; archaism of costume in miniatures; French manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; historiated Bibles; the ivy-pattern; the _Horae_ of the Duc de Berri; the _treasure-book_ of Origny Abbey; the Anjou _Horae_; costly and magnificent French _Horae_; their beautiful decorations; their numerous miniatures; the Bedford _Breviary_; the Bedford _Missal_; various styles in the same manuscript; manuscripts in _Grisaille_; manuscripts of secular works; Cristina of Pisa; _Chronicles_ and _Travels_; _Romances_ and _Poems_; Italian influence in the south of France; the growth of secular illuminators; the inferiority of their work; cheap and coarsely illuminated _Horae_; manuscripts of the finest style; use of flowers and fruit in borders and initials; influence of the Italian Renaissance; the _Horae_ of Jehan Foucquet of Tours.