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nander at Cairo, ed. G. Lefebvre; the Wolfenbiittel Propertius, ed. T. Birt; and a further 

 instalment of the great Florentine Pandects of Justinian. 



Illuminated MSS. 1 An instructive book, Illuminated Manuscripts, has been written 

 by Mr. J. A. Herbert (Methuen), 1911, dealing with the different mediaeval schools 

 and their productions. Besides this, a fair number of reproductions of choice MSS. have 

 been published during the last few years. Three codices of the Byzantine School were 

 issued in 1909. The first is the Vatican MS. of the Topographia Christiana of Cosmas 

 Indicopleustes, of the ninth century, ed. C. Stornajolo, the paintings in a broad illustra- 

 tive style; the second is the Octateuch of Smyrna, containing from three to four hundred 

 miniatures of conventional type, of the twelfth century, ed. D. C. Hesseling; the third 

 is a Syriac Gospel Lectionary of the twelfth or thirteenth century, from Malatia on the 

 Euphrates, now at Paris, illustrated with a series of miniatures of conventional art, 

 the subjects being replicas of those in similar MSS. of Greek origin, ed. H. Omont. 



In England three famous MSS. have been dealt with. The Benedictional of St. 

 ^thelwold, Bishop of Winchester, the most important extant example of Anglo-Saxon 

 art, of the later part of the tenth century, the property of the Duke of Devonshire, 

 has been reproduced for the Roxburgh Club, ed. G. F. Warner and |H. A. Wilson, 1910; 

 for the same club the wonderful Apocalypse of Trinity College, Cambridge, of about 

 A.D. 1230, perhaps executed at St. Alban's, has been edited by Dr. M. R. James, 1909; 

 and the MS. known as Queen Mary's Psalter, one of the most precious volumes in the 

 Royal Collection of the British Museum, and of extreme artistic value, not only for 

 its illuminated miniatures, but also for its wonderful series of tinted outline drawings 

 of the best English art of the early years of the fourteenth century, has been brought 

 out by the Trustees, ed. Sir G. F. Warner, 1912. 



French illumination has been represented by several reproductions. The miniatures 

 and initials of the two Bibles of Charles le Chauve in the Bibliotheque Nationale have 

 been issued by H. Omont, 1911. The Psalter of St. Louis and Blanche of Castile, of the 

 thirteenth century, one of the choice MSS. of the Arsenal Library, Paris, ed. H. Martin, 

 appeared in 1909; a section of the Bible Moralisee, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library 

 of the thirteenth century, ed. Count A. de Laborde, in 1911; the Book of Hours of 

 Jean Pucelle, of the fourteenth century, belonging to Baron M. de Rothschild, ed. L. 

 Dilisle, in 1910; the Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, Comte de Foix, from a MS. 

 in the Bibliotheque Nationale, of the early fifteenth century, ed. C. Couderc, in 1909; 

 the Arsenal Cas des noblis hommes et femmes from Boccaccio, which belonged to John 

 the Fearless of Burgundy, of the early fifteenth century, ed. H. Martin, in 1911; the 

 Breviary of Philip the Good of Burgundy, now in the Royal Library at Brussels, of the 

 first half of the isth cent., ed. J. Van den Gheyn, in 1909; and the Munich Boccaccio, 

 of the school of Jean Foucquet, c. A.D. 1458, ed. Count P. Durrieu, in 1009. 



Of the Flemish school are the following: The Chronicques et conquestes de Charlemagne 

 with upwards of a hundred miniatures by Jean le Tavernier of Oudenarde, A.D. 1460, 

 and the Histoire de Charles Martel with a like number of miniatures by Loyset Liedet, 

 A.D. 1463-1465, both MSS. in the Royal Library of Brussels, ed. J. Van den Gheyn, 

 1909 and 1910; and the completion of the Grimani Breviary of Venice, in the Leiden 

 series, 1910. The reproduction in honour of Sir G. F. Warner of the miniatures and 

 borders of a Flemish Book of Hours in the British Museum (Add. MS., 24098), of the 

 beginning of the sixteenth century, may also be mentioned. 



Only two examples of Italian art have to be recorded: the RomuKon, a MS. in the 

 Arsenal of Paris, with miniatures of the late fifteenth century, ed. H. Martin, 1909; and 

 the Psalter of Paul III, A.D. 1542, with miniatures and initials attributed to Vincenzio 

 Raimondo, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, ed. L. Dorez, 1900. 



(E. MAUNDE THOMPSON.) 



1 See E. B. xiv, 312 et seq. 



