The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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... ( vellum ) , embroi- dered with the destruction of Troy , which Witlaf , King of Mercia , gave to the abbey of Croyland ; and the coronation mantle of Harold Harefoot , son of Cnute , which he gave to the same abbey , made of silk , and ...
... ( vellum ) , embroi- dered with the destruction of Troy , which Witlaf , King of Mercia , gave to the abbey of Croyland ; and the coronation mantle of Harold Harefoot , son of Cnute , which he gave to the same abbey , made of silk , and ...
Page 359
... vellum , with rich and elegant decorations , and that the suns of half a century had risen and set , ere , with unin- termitting labour and unwearied zeal , he finished it in his ninetieth . He will also tell us , that when a book was ...
... vellum , with rich and elegant decorations , and that the suns of half a century had risen and set , ere , with unin- termitting labour and unwearied zeal , he finished it in his ninetieth . He will also tell us , that when a book was ...
Page 364
... vellum is recorded in the life of the Emperor Maximinus the younger , to whom , in the commencement of the third century , his mother made a present of the poems of Homer , written on purple vellum in gold letters . Such productions ...
... vellum is recorded in the life of the Emperor Maximinus the younger , to whom , in the commencement of the third century , his mother made a present of the poems of Homer , written on purple vellum in gold letters . Such productions ...
Page 365
... vellum be the more ancient , I cannot take upon me to determine ; but it is right you should be in- formed that St. Jerom denounces as coxcombs , all those who , in his own time , were so violently attached to your favourite purple ...
... vellum be the more ancient , I cannot take upon me to determine ; but it is right you should be in- formed that St. Jerom denounces as coxcombs , all those who , in his own time , were so violently attached to your favourite purple ...
Page 366
... vellum in letters of gold and silver , unless at the particular desire of a prince . ' " The subject also of MSS . frequently regulated the mode of executing it . Thus we learn from the 28th Epistle of Boniface ( Bishop and Martyr ) to ...
... vellum in letters of gold and silver , unless at the particular desire of a prince . ' " The subject also of MSS . frequently regulated the mode of executing it . Thus we learn from the 28th Epistle of Boniface ( Bishop and Martyr ) to ...
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