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A Primer of the Art of Illumination for the Use of Beginners / With a rudimentary treatise on the art, practical directions for its exercise, and examples taken from illuminated mss. cover

A Primer of the Art of Illumination for the Use of Beginners / With a rudimentary treatise on the art, practical directions for its exercise, and examples taken from illuminated mss.

Chapter 5: Italian and German Specimens.
By F. Delamotte
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This manual introduces the history, defining characteristics, and practical techniques of medieval illumination for beginners. It outlines stylistic origins and examples from museum-held manuscripts, explains how illuminated decoration differs from other ornamentation, and gives step-by-step guidance on materials, colour handling, and gilding. The work includes progressive exercises and coloured plates modeled on authentic manuscripts, advice on purchasing pigments and tools, and corrective notes on common misconceptions, aiming to equip readers to study historical exemplars and to practise illumination with informed technique.

Italian and German Specimens.

[In the three first specimens selected, an instance will be observed of a species of ornamentation to which the name of ‘pottering’ has been familiarly applied; it consists of a sort of fringe to the initial and part of the text, resembling in arrangement the ‘bracket,’ and in principle the flourishes of a modern writing master; but when tastefully applied, it is remarkably effective, and has the advantage of being very easy.]

 
DATE. NAME OF
SPECIMEN.		 POINTS TO
BE NOTED.		 WHERE TO
BE FOUND.		 PAGE IN[12]
GUIDE
BOOK.
1455. The Mazarine Bible. Initial, red and white. Case III. 1   7
1457. The Mentz Psalter. Initial and border. Do.3   8
1459. Do. (2nd edition) Do. Do.4   8
1462. Bible in Latin. A peculiar and bold kind of initial. Do.5   8
1469. Livy. The white branch on parti-coloured ground. Case VI. 2  11
”   Cicero, Tusculanæ Questiones. Initial and bracket. Do.3  11
”   Cicero, Epistolæ familiares. The white branch, &c. Do.10  11
1470. Cicero, Epistolæ, &c. Border and initial. Do.10  12
1480. Æsop’s Fables. Border. Do.8  11
1481. Liber Psalmorum. Border. Do.9  11
1482. Euclid’s Geometry. The white branch, on parti-coloured background. Case X.   5  19
1484. Breviary of the Camaldolese Monks. Border and initials. Case IX.  1  16
1501. Martial—Epigrammata. Border and picture. Case X.   7  19
1513. Aulus Gellius—Noctes Atticæ. Border. Do.19  20
1514. Plautus—Comedies. Border, &c. Do.20  20

Specimen of a Grant (Italian.)
1494. Ludovico Maria Sforza Visconti, Duke of Milan, to his wife. The ornamental work which occupies the whole upper part of this specimen is worthy of minute and careful study. It is magnificent. Miscellaneous
Autographs,
&c.		   MS.
19, 20.