Identifier: arttreasuresofla00lamb (find matches)
Title: Art treasures of the Lambeth library. A description of the illuminated mauscripts, etc;
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Lambeth Palace Library Kershaw, Samuel Wayland, b. 1837
Subjects: Rare books Manuscripts -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : B.M. Pickering
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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brilliancy of the colouring, heightened by the back-grounds of burnirhed gold, or dark blue, with whichmoft of the illuminations are accompanied. The proportions of the figures are fomewhat long, thehands and feet rather fmall and thin ; but the generaltreatment and grouping of each fcene is very harmo-nious, while the outhnes and folds of the drapery,heightened with white, are drawn with much finifh andelegance. Some acceflbries depi6ling armour, architec-tural details and minor fubjedts, are alfo reprefented. The Apocalyptic defigns, which occupy the upperhalf of the page, are accompanied by the text in doublecolumns, in gothic charader, with a profufion of fmallilluminated initial letters, of the ufual filigree pattern,with finials and other marginal embellifhments. Prefixed to folio i, is the full-length painting of aprieft, habited in a black robe with hanging fleeve, andwearing the tonfure. In front of him ftands a pedeftal, Y,ly/(^t^^^^<J^^^^S^^ ^^^.-fV^r r :\- r/^^
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&<-f-^^ -^^^^t^^^n^t^^-x ^-S^^Ji cf^J Apocalypfe. 49 upon which is placed a figure of the Virgin and Child,which he appears to be in the a6t of colouring. In hisright hand he holds a pen or brufh, and in his left, akind of faucer containing colours. The head, the cha-racter of which is very expreffive, is in outline. Abovethe figure is written, Memento mei arnica Dei, inrubricated letters. The fubje(5ls of the Vifion are in general fo well known,that it is thought fit to mention thofe only that arepi£iorially interefting, viz.: St. John vifited by an Angel, in the Ifle of Patmos.Fo. I. St. John before the Son of Man, out of whofe mouthwent the fword, in the prefence of the Seven Angelsand the Seven Golden Candlefticks. Fo. \b. The Deity (on the throne), holding the book fealedwith (tYtn feals, the worfhip of the four-and-twentyElders. Fo. 3. The Lamb, with the feven horns, and feven eyes, fur-rounded by the four fymbolic animals and the Elders.Fo. i^b. The Lamb holding the boo

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