Outlines of European history . strate theminuteness and perfection of the best work; the second to show irregularitiesand mistakes due to negligence or lack of skill in the copyists. The page represented in Fig. 199 is taken from i Maccabees i, 56-ii, 65 (aportion of the Scriptures not usually included in the Protestant Bibles). ditis fugitivorum locis. Die quintadecima mensis Caslev, quinto et quadra-gesimo et centesimo anno aedificavit rex Antiochus abominandum idolum desola-tionis super altare Dei; et per universas civitates Juda in circitu aedificaveruntaras et ante januas dom
Outlines of European history . strate theminuteness and perfection of the best work; the second to show irregularitiesand mistakes due to negligence or lack of skill in the copyists. The page represented in Fig. 199 is taken from i Maccabees i, 56-ii, 65 (aportion of the Scriptures not usually included in the Protestant Bibles). ditis fugitivorum locis. Die quintadecima mensis Caslev, quinto et quadra-gesimo et centesimo anno aedificavit rex Antiochus abominandum idolum desola-tionis super altare Dei; et per universas civitates Juda in circitu aedificaveruntaras et ante januas domorum, et in plateis incendebant thura, et sacrificabantet libros legis Dei com[busserunt]. The scribes used a good many abbrevia-tions, as was the custom of the time, and what is transcribed here fills five linesof the manuscript. The second less perfect page here reproduced is from the prophet Amos,iii, 9-vii, 16. It begins, vinearum vestrarum; oliveta vestra et ficeta vestracomedit eruca et non redistis ad me, dicit Plate VIII. Page from a Book of Hours, Fifteenth Century(Original Size) Books and Science in the Middle Ages 553 as clear, small, and almost as regular as if they had been printed. Illuminated pt,^ T_ 1 , ^ _„ . manuscripts i ne wtiole volume containing the Old and New Testaments isabout the size of this book. After the scribe had finished hiswork the volume was often turned over to the illuminator,who would put in gay illuminated initials and sometimes pageborders, which were delightful in design and color.^ Books de-signed to be used in the church services were adorned with pic-tures as well as with ornamented initials and decorative VIII is a reproduction of a page from a Book of Hoursin the library of Columbia University. It is the same size as theoriginal. The written books were, in short, often both compact and Slow processbeautiful, but they were never cheap or easily produced in by handgreat numbers. When Cosimo, the father of Lor
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