ABSTRACT

An Evangeliarium, quarto, nearly approaching the size of a folio, in one volume, written throughout in a large golden minuscule letter. The letter of St. Jerome to PopeDamasus, which is in still smaller text, is followed by six leaves containing the Canons. The background consists of a building with battlements. St. Luke, with short beard, and noble in head, form, and position, has, both in the style of the drapery and in the broken colours of his robe, an antique appearance; at his feet is a scrinium with rolls of paper. A very thick octavo volume, in one column, in a beautiful full minuscule letter; judging from text and miniatures, dating from about 1300, while the saints in the calendar, and an occasional French superscription, show the pictures to have been executed in France. The Calendar, which occupies six sheets, has pretty border decorations. The occupations of the month, and the signs of the zodiac, are small and simple.