Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ime there was a school there, wherethe Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church were studied, along withAristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Marcian and Boetius. Grammar, poetry, music,painting and architecture, jurisprudence, medicine and government werealso studied. Hence it is not surprising to find the art of illumination carried onthere as well; this abbey seems to have been similar to that of Win-chester, where the Scriptorium founded by Alfred the Great continuedto perform its function, at the time when the northwest of England wasinhabited by the Norsemen, who influen
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ime there was a school there, wherethe Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church were studied, along withAristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Marcian and Boetius. Grammar, poetry, music,painting and architecture, jurisprudence, medicine and government werealso studied. Hence it is not surprising to find the art of illumination carried onthere as well; this abbey seems to have been similar to that of Win-chester, where the Scriptorium founded by Alfred the Great continuedto perform its function, at the time when the northwest of England wasinhabited by the Norsemen, who influenced poetry and design in thatcountry. Several designers of illumination are known by name: Hilduin,Scoliand, Raoul, and others. Musical notation is also met with. Thebooks in which these were incorporated were not mere by-play, but wereconsidered the most precious possessions of the Abbey, which was calledthe City of Books. The illustrious Abbot Robert de Torigny wasdignified by the title of Librarian of Mont St. Michel. 23. FROM THE HARLEY MS. 2904, BRITISH MUSEUM, DATED 963-964 A. SCHOOL. This matter having now become a fact, further inquiryconcerning the basis of Western European art is justified. Let us look at the position broadly. We see in the tenthcentury, from 974, an emigration of the best families fromNorway to Iceland and the West of France. Long before,the Danes had settled on the West Coast of England, andnow, in Iceland. Hence, all around the Xorth Sea were set-tlements of the same race, the race we know under the nameof Vikings or Northmen. The Normans were the descend-ants of these warriors and their French wives, and after theirconquest of England they slowly mingled with the Anglo- 24 6 DTlarLttineriP 7t
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