The rose garden of Persia . Y t 4». The Orientala appear to agree in opinioa with theItiilians, that molto cresce una belt&, uno belmanto; for they have at all timetj taken greatdelight in adorning their manuscrij)ts, consideringthat they thus do honour to the subject. Eous-seaus feeling of paying proper homage to his im * * * v, 4 xiT ON OBNAMENT. fl* manuscript Heloise would be thoroughly under- ! [ stood in the East. Jj ~i The works of favourite i^oets are generally written j^ on fme silky paper, the ground of which is often,f .powdered with gold or silver dust;-the margins are ,» ^ illumia
The rose garden of Persia . Y t 4». The Orientala appear to agree in opinioa with theItiilians, that molto cresce una belt&, uno belmanto; for they have at all timetj taken greatdelight in adorning their manuscrij)ts, consideringthat they thus do honour to the subject. Eous-seaus feeling of paying proper homage to his im * * * v, 4 xiT ON OBNAMENT. fl* manuscript Heloise would be thoroughly under- ! [ stood in the East. Jj ~i The works of favourite i^oets are generally written j^ on fme silky paper, the ground of which is often,f .powdered with gold or silver dust;-the margins are ,» ^ illumiaated, and the whole perfutaed with some ^ I costly essence. Amongst cithers, that magnificent • volume containing the poem of Yussuf and Zulei-ka,W preserved in the public hbrary at Oxford,affords a proof of the honours accorded to poetical «. compositions: the British Museum is also rich in • , L equally beautiful manuscripts. , j, T One of the finest specimens of calligraphy and * Y illumination is the exordium to the L
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