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The Hamilton Manuscripts.
Next may be mentioned a missal executed for Pope Clement VII . shortly before his elevation to the Pontificate . This splendid volume is esteemed as the work of the exquisite , but almost unknown artist Antonio da Monza , who flourished at Milan at the end of the fifteenth
and beginning of the sixteenth century . The caligrapher was Ludovico Vicentino , well known to bibliographers as the author of a work on the art of which he was so great a master . The illuminations consist of thirteen large and nineteen small miniatures , besides twentyeight full-page borders of surpassing beauty of execution . The whole
volume is in perfect preservation and in its original binding . Another truly splendid volume is a Bible of the fourteenth century , decorated with two hundred and ninety-seven exquisite paintings , besides a hundred and tAventy-seven smaller miniatures , and one hundred and thirty richly illuminated borders . This grand book posseses the
unusual distinction of bearing the name of the artist , John of Ravenna , which is thus given on the last leaf" Hujus biblie scriptor Eterne sit vite possessor , Cujus nomen habetur De Eavenna magister Johannes . "
Another splendid and truly royal volume is the works of Horace , written and illuminated in the first years of the last decade of the fifteenth century for Ferdinand I . King of Naples . This beautiful book is attributed to Marco Attavanti , miniatore to Leo X . A psalterium of the eleventh century is a volume of extreme interest for
the eaily history of art , containing as it does 200 drawings in colours of a remarkable character , the work of an English or Norman artist . Petrarch has been much more frequently than Dante the subject on which miniatori have delighted to exercise their art , and the former of this collection was happy in securing one of the finest ever made .
It is a large folio volume containing the poems of Petrarch , with the Commentary of Francisco Philelpho , and it was under the care of the commentator that this superb manuscript was completed . It has twelve gorgeous pages , the subjects being enclosed within borders of very beautiful design of the Florentine school of the fifteenth
century . Among the French manuscripts , "Les Illustres Malheurenx de Jean Boccace is specially remarkable both for the beauty of its execution and its perfect condition . It is enriched with eighty-four miniatures , nine of which are of a large size , and the whole of them finished with
consummate skill . This noble work is dated 1409 . The " Roman de la Rose " is a work of which a very large number of manuscripts exist , but probably no other surpasses that contained
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Hamilton Manuscripts.
Next may be mentioned a missal executed for Pope Clement VII . shortly before his elevation to the Pontificate . This splendid volume is esteemed as the work of the exquisite , but almost unknown artist Antonio da Monza , who flourished at Milan at the end of the fifteenth
and beginning of the sixteenth century . The caligrapher was Ludovico Vicentino , well known to bibliographers as the author of a work on the art of which he was so great a master . The illuminations consist of thirteen large and nineteen small miniatures , besides twentyeight full-page borders of surpassing beauty of execution . The whole
volume is in perfect preservation and in its original binding . Another truly splendid volume is a Bible of the fourteenth century , decorated with two hundred and ninety-seven exquisite paintings , besides a hundred and tAventy-seven smaller miniatures , and one hundred and thirty richly illuminated borders . This grand book posseses the
unusual distinction of bearing the name of the artist , John of Ravenna , which is thus given on the last leaf" Hujus biblie scriptor Eterne sit vite possessor , Cujus nomen habetur De Eavenna magister Johannes . "
Another splendid and truly royal volume is the works of Horace , written and illuminated in the first years of the last decade of the fifteenth century for Ferdinand I . King of Naples . This beautiful book is attributed to Marco Attavanti , miniatore to Leo X . A psalterium of the eleventh century is a volume of extreme interest for
the eaily history of art , containing as it does 200 drawings in colours of a remarkable character , the work of an English or Norman artist . Petrarch has been much more frequently than Dante the subject on which miniatori have delighted to exercise their art , and the former of this collection was happy in securing one of the finest ever made .
It is a large folio volume containing the poems of Petrarch , with the Commentary of Francisco Philelpho , and it was under the care of the commentator that this superb manuscript was completed . It has twelve gorgeous pages , the subjects being enclosed within borders of very beautiful design of the Florentine school of the fifteenth
century . Among the French manuscripts , "Les Illustres Malheurenx de Jean Boccace is specially remarkable both for the beauty of its execution and its perfect condition . It is enriched with eighty-four miniatures , nine of which are of a large size , and the whole of them finished with
consummate skill . This noble work is dated 1409 . The " Roman de la Rose " is a work of which a very large number of manuscripts exist , but probably no other surpasses that contained