[21]
Augustus W. Franks, ‘Vitreous Art,’ p. 14 in Art Treasures of the United Kingdom,
a book which was brought out in connexion with the Manchester Exhibition of 1857.
[22]
Mr. Arthur Evans recognizes a Keltic physiognomy in the eyes of the icuncula;
but for me the eyes are as if they were not, being so much sunk out of their place,
that through infirmity of sight I am unable to verify them.
[25]
And þa comon hi ymb vii niht to londe on Cornwalum, and foron þa sona to Ælfrede cyninge.
[26]
For the Irish illumination above referred to I have relied upon Facsimiles of Miniatures
and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. By J. O. Westwood. London, 1868. Plate XI.
[27]
‘The back, or reverse, is a plate of gold lying immediately upon the back of the miniature,
and this is beautifully worked in foliage.’ Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A., in the Reliquary
for October, 1878: vol. xx, p. 66.
[28]
Here I follow the old copy of this drawing in Hickes’s Thesaurus (1705) facing p. viij.