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CHOICE EXAMPLES OF BOOK ILLUMINATION.<br />

Fac-similes from Illuminated Manuscripts<br />

of Early Date.<br />

<strong>and</strong> Illustrated Books<br />

A PAGE FROM A TOULOUSE BREVIARY.<br />

This is a fine example from a breviary with a miniature of St. George, written in<br />

Southern France about 1400. It is written on vellum, <strong>and</strong> Is generally, qansidefcd<br />

to represent the perfection of French art. In delicacy <strong>and</strong> oeauty it is noV sjftrpassed<br />

by any other ilhistration in Biblical .ind liturs^ical manuscripts.

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