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of a draped figure, where the connecting lines are omitted, 

 and the jagged edge is represented alone (figs, lb, 2 b); and 

 this was partly owing to the form of the drapery having been 



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handed down from one to another until its original character 

 was lost. At first, in the early MSS., the antique type was 

 frequently well preserved; but in course of time, as each 

 copied from a copy, the draughtsmen departed farther from 



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