Catalogue of mediæval & later antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum, including the Mather collection of miniatures and medals relating to the Bonaparte family . t£ (7 i: a. o o s. I ?IT.^V^.^ .».??> - ,f. ??? -!^»>^Vff^>.^^T » »-.:y>-*. ?- •^?«- ?<«?»?*- N (3) MEDI/EVAL MANUSCRIPTS. Most of these are Catholic church books, or private prayer books,written on vellum at various periods, for the most part before the inventionof printing; executed generally in monasteries, by the religious set apartto work in the scriptorium or writing apartment. Some interesting descrip-tions
Catalogue of mediæval & later antiquities contained in the Mayer Museum, including the Mather collection of miniatures and medals relating to the Bonaparte family . t£ (7 i: a. o o s. I ?IT.^V^.^ .».??> - ,f. ??? -!^»>^Vff^>.^^T » »-.:y>-*. ?- •^?«- ?<«?»?*- N (3) MEDI/EVAL MANUSCRIPTS. Most of these are Catholic church books, or private prayer books,written on vellum at various periods, for the most part before the inventionof printing; executed generally in monasteries, by the religious set apartto work in the scriptorium or writing apartment. Some interesting descrip-tions of such work are given by Dr. Maitland, in The Dark Ages; hetranslates an autobiographical passage of Othlonius, a monk at Ratisbon,in the nth century. Othlonius commences by stating how God hadhonoured him with a remarkable facility for writing, as a child ; and inspite of his acquiring a habit of holding his pen in a wrong manner, hegoes on to state how he laboured hard and successfully at writinguntil it affected his eyesight, and enumerates some of his labours :— Iwrote nineteen missals—ten for the abbots and monks in our ownm
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