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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
112. a. Rustic Capitals. Vergil, Codex Palatinus. Fourth-fifth
century. From Codices Latini Antiquiores, Pt. i, edited by
E. A. Lowe (Clarendon Press) Facing p. 543
b. Uncial. Codex Amiarinus written at Jarrow by order of
Abbot Ceolfrid (A.D. 690-716). From Cotices Latini
Antiquiores, Pt. iii, edited by E. A. Lowe (Clarendon
Press) 543
c. Half-uncial. Hilarius de Trinitate. Fifth-sixth century.
From Codices Latini Antiquiores, Pt. i, edited by E. A.
Lowe (Clarendon Press) 543
113. Carolingian minuscule. About A.D. 820, Tours writing. From
Bodleian Library, MS. Bodley 218, 62r 114. Irish majuscule. The Book of Kells. Eighth-ninth century.
From the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin 545
115. Insular minuscule. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written at WHV
Chester about A.D. 891. From the manuscript in Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge 546
1 1 6. Latin book'hand. Life and Miracles of St. Augustine by
Goscelin, a monk of St. Augustine's Canterbury. Early
twelfth century. British Museum, MS. Cotton Vespasian
B. xx 547
117. Cursive. Letter from Stephen, the Dean and the Chapter of
St. Peter's at York to the Justices ofthe Bench. A.D. 1202-
12 12. Bodleian Library, MS. Ch. Yorks, 540 550
1 1 8. a. Latin book^hand. Thirteenth century. The beginning of
the Argumentum in epistola Petri ad Romanos which Matthew
Paris himselfadded to a Bible written by a scribe. Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, MS. 2, f. 369* 551
I. Cursive. Notes written by Matthew Paris. Thirteenth
century. British Museum, MS. Cotton Nero D. i,
i66 b
119. Gothic script. Douce Apocalypse. Probably written before
1272. English. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 180, p. 87 554
120. Humanistic script Letter from the University ofOxford to the
Judges at Westminster. A.D. 1524. Bodleian Library, MS.
Bodley 282, 70 V
121. a. Chancery set hand. Sixteenth century. By permission ofthe
Public Record Office 556
I. Secretary hand. A.D. 1591. By permission of the Public
Record Office 556
122. Colophon ofCaxton's Dfctes or Sayengis of the Philosophers, from
the copy in the John Rylands Library, Manchester 560
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