A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany . colour:all in the same style—short figures, of a sort of Gothic 172 THE ROYAL LIBRARY. composition. The scription throughout is a small,close, upright, Gothic character; decidedly of thexvth century. The ink is uniformly pale. Accordingto Camus, there are upwards of 5000 illuminations;and a similar work, in his estimation, could not nowbe executed under 100,000 francs. A Similar MS. This consists but of one volume,of a larger size, of 321 leaves. It is also an historicalBible. The illuminations are arranged in a manner
A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany . colour:all in the same style—short figures, of a sort of Gothic 172 THE ROYAL LIBRARY. composition. The scription throughout is a small,close, upright, Gothic character; decidedly of thexvth century. The ink is uniformly pale. Accordingto Camus, there are upwards of 5000 illuminations;and a similar work, in his estimation, could not nowbe executed under 100,000 francs. A Similar MS. This consists but of one volume,of a larger size, of 321 leaves. It is also an historicalBible. The illuminations are arranged in a mannerlike those of the preceding; but in black and whiteonly, delicately shaded. The figures are tall, andthe females have small heads; just what we observein those of the Roman d^Alexandre, in the Bodleianlibrary. It is doubtless a manuscript of nearly thesame age, although this may be somewhat more re-cent. At folio Lxxix. we observe some men in ar-mour, of which I have sketched only this hasty copy;sufficient to establish something respecting the periodof its The text, as in the preceding MS., is a small, closeGothic—executed in ink which has now become busy but bungling hand has been inserting, as asupposed improvement, portions of blue colour forskies. But it was time and labour sadly mispent. Liber Generationis Ihi Xti. Of all portionsof the sacred text—not absolutely a consecutive series ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. 173 of the Gospels, or of any of the books of the Old Testa-ment—the present is probably, not only the oldestMS. in that particular depaitment, but, with the ex-ception of the well known Codex Claromontanus,the most ancient volume in the Royal Library. It isa folio, having- purple leaves throughout, upon whichthe text is executed in silver capitals. Both the purpleand the silver are faded. On the exterior of the bind-ing are carvings in ivory, exceedingly curious, butrather clumsy. The binding is probably coeval withthe MS. They call it o
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