A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists: With References to Their Works, and Notices of Their Patrons, from the Establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3B. Quaritch, 1889 - Artists |
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Page 440 - PALEOGRAPHY; or a Collection of Facsimiles of the Writings of every Age ; taken from the most authentic Manuscripts existing in the Libraries of France, Italy, Germany and England, containing UPWARDS OF 300 LARGE AND MOST BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED FACSIMILES, TAKEN FROM MlSSALS AND...
Page 161 - Mais si sur votre front, je puis me voir un jour, La plus humble des fleurs sera la plus superbe.
Page 4 - Agobbio, eccellente miniatore in que' tempi, il quale condotto perciò dal Papa miniò molti libri per la libreria di palazzo , che sono in gran parte oggi consumati dal tempo. E nel mio libro de...
Page 283 - Jehan, filz de roy de France, duc de Berry et d'Auvergne, conte de Poitou, d'Estampes, de...
Page 439 - This is perhaps the finest book in the world, and the most interesting to the Scholar and the man Of taste. Three hundred fac-similes of the choicest MSS.
Page 440 - SILVESTRE'S UNIVERSAL PALEOGRAPHY; or a Collection of Facsimiles of the Writings of every Age ; taken from the most authentic Manuscripts existing in the Libraries of France, Italy, Germany and England...
Page 250 - arrived at copying the most exquisite works of Isaac and Peter Oliver, Hoskins, and Cooper, with a genius that almost depreciates those masters...
Page 126 - We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...