cf the Ancients rejpe5imig G, 's. 117 



;) 



Gregory of Tours Vir' "riblng the 



A.P. 571 ravages of war^makii 'quent men- 

 Gregory of , *^ ^ 



Tours. tion of the devaftationli committed 



on the windows of the churches. 



Fortunatus f likewife, who was 

 A. D. 571. contemporary with Gregory of Tours, 

 and alfo bifliop of Tours and Poic- 

 tiers, wrcte a poem on the church at Paris, where 

 he defcribes the light coming through the glafs 

 windows, as one of the principal circumftances 

 that contributed to its beauty and ornament. 



Johannes Philoponus J the philofo- 

 A. D; 630. pher, who liv^d accordins; to Hel- 



johannes ^ ^ 



Philoponus. vicus, about the year 630, but ac^. 

 cording to Hoffman, a century 

 earlier, not only fpeaks of glafs, but of the panes 

 being fattened in wiih plaifter, much in the fame 

 way as at pre fen t. 



• Afcendentes per eum, effrafta vitrei ingrefli {ant. 



Gregor. Turon. Lib. VI. C. 10. 

 EfFradlis cellulas vitreis baltas per parietis feneflras in- 

 jiciunt. Ibid. L. \l\. C. 29 



Si aliud inquit invenere non poflom vel has ipfas quas 

 ce;no I'itreas anferam. Lib. L Miracul. C. 29. 



-j- Prima capit radios vitreis oculata feneftris, 

 Atificifq. manu claufit in arce diem. 



Fortunatus. Lib. II. Poem 11. De Ecclef. Parifiac. 



tTTjTiSsiTai T^i; oixiaj ya^iv rav ^id)~iC,i7^xi rccvra^, Phil. 1I> 



poll Analeda citat a Salm. Plin. Exerciet, 771. 



I 3 St. Audoen 



