. Art treasures of the Lambeth library. A description of the illuminated mauscripts, etc;. ry ufeful book is the ^ Regiftrum facrum Angli-canum an attempt to exhibit the courfe of Epifcopalfucceffion in England. 4to. 1858. The lofs of his recent fervices in affording fcholarlyaid to all who confulted the MSS. and Books, will belong felt and gratefully remembered. In 1868 certain alterations, effected by the late Arch-bifhop Longley, approved by the Ecclefiaftical Com-miffioners, and afterwards enforced by an Order inCouncil, rendered the library much more acceflible to allftudents and literary
. Art treasures of the Lambeth library. A description of the illuminated mauscripts, etc;. ry ufeful book is the ^ Regiftrum facrum Angli-canum an attempt to exhibit the courfe of Epifcopalfucceffion in England. 4to. 1858. The lofs of his recent fervices in affording fcholarlyaid to all who confulted the MSS. and Books, will belong felt and gratefully remembered. In 1868 certain alterations, effected by the late Arch-bifhop Longley, approved by the Ecclefiaftical Com-miffioners, and afterwards enforced by an Order inCouncil, rendered the library much more acceflible to allftudents and literary men.^ The memory of one is ftill living, who, as HonoraryCurator, difplayed an unwearied intereft in the welfare ofthe library; I allude to the late Archdeacon of London,the Venerable W, Hale Hale, M. A, and with adding atribute to his valuable but fhort-lived fervices, my {ketchesof thefe eminent men are brought to an appropriate clofe. The Library is open on Mondays, Wednefdays, and Fridays, fromten to three, except during the Vacations, of which due announcementis given INTRODUCTORY. Glimpfes of glory, neer forgot That telJ like gleams on a funfet Tea, What once hath been—what now is not,But, oh ! what again (hall brightly be. JHE fignificance of illuminated MSS. maybe confidered in their relations to hiJlor)\Jymholijm^ and pra5fical ujes. The importance thefe feveral divifionsaflume, is well known to all who havebeen aided by illuminations in illuftrating Tome work ofart, and the feveral characfleriftics of ftyle, execution, andchronological data have been treated by greatly expe-rienced writers on the fubjecft. The following Jketch fimply endeavours to throw outreflexions and fuggeftions, occafioned by this threefolddivifion. £2 ^^ I. History. |ROM remote ages the embellifhment of manu-fcript appears to have been cuftomary, and tohave advanced or receded with the current ofcivilization. The Egyptian hieroglyphics executed on fcrolls made
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