A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany . PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE KING. 373 it is not only of the time, but it liad been the property ofCharlemagne himself. M. Barbier unlocked the recessin which it is religiously preserved ; took off the crimsonvelvet in which it is enveloped ; and springing back-ward only two feet and a half, exclaimed, on present-ing it, Le voila—dans toute sa beaute pristine. Iown that I even forgot Charles the Bald—and eke hisimperial hvoi\\Qv Lotharius*—as 1 gazed upon the con-tents of it. With these contents it is now high timethat you s
A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany . PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE KING. 373 it is not only of the time, but it liad been the property ofCharlemagne himself. M. Barbier unlocked the recessin which it is religiously preserved ; took off the crimsonvelvet in which it is enveloped ; and springing back-ward only two feet and a half, exclaimed, on present-ing it, Le voila—dans toute sa beaute pristine. Iown that I even forgot Charles the Bald—and eke hisimperial hvoi\\Qv Lotharius*—as 1 gazed upon the con-tents of it. With these contents it is now high timethat you should be made acquainted. EvANGELisTARiUM, or Prayer Book—oucc belong-ing to Charlemagne. Folio. The subject-matter ofthis most precious book is thus arranged. In the firstplace, there are five large illuminations, of the entiresize of the page, which are much discoloured. Thefirst four represent the Evangelists : each sitting upona cushion, not unlike a bolster. The fifth is the figureof our Saviour ; and of this I was resolved to obtain afac-simile—if it were
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