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Poet declaiming to accompaniment of Viol . Frontispiece 

 Roswitha presenting her Poem to the Emperor Otho I., 



the Abbess of Gandersheim standing at her 



side. A. Durer, 1501 . . . . I 



Cover of St. Emmeran Gospels. loth century . 7 



Marriage of Otho II. and Theophano. Byzantine, 



loth century ..... 7 



Lady playing Harp. Add. MS. 38117, Brit. Mus. . 32 

 Add. MS. 10293, Brit. Mus. . . . .34 



Boat with Knights and Lady. Add. MS. 10294, 



Brit. Mus. . . . . .49 



Glaukos and Polyeidos in Tomb. Greek Vase, Brit. 



Mus. ...... 52 



Statue of Mahaut in Abbey of La Thieuloye, near 



Arras, now destroyed. From a Drawing, now 



in Brussels, made in 1602 . . .99 



Marriage of Charles le Bel and Marie of Luxemburg. 



Grandes Chrons. de France. Bib. Nat. . 100 



Thirteenth-Century Treatise on Surgery, in French. 



Sloane MS. 1977 .... 103 



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