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The Hamilton Manuscripts.

in this collection for the number of the miniatures , no less than 100 , or the delicacy of their execution . This beautiful book is esteemed to have been made little , if any , later than the lifetime of the author , Jean de Menu , who died in 1364 . A French translation of Diodorus Siculus is remarkable as being the identical copy presented to Francis I .

with his monogram impressed on the sides of the binding . The first page represents the King seated on a throne , surrounded by his courtiers and his three sons ( the Dauphin Francis , afterwards married to Mary Queen of Scots , Henry , afterwards Henry II . of France , and Charles , Duke of Orleans ) . The painting is a chef d ' ceuvre

of the French art of the period from its perfect finish , and the detail is carried out with the greatest minuteness . In such a library of manuscripts we naturally expect to find some fine specimens of that favourite work on which illuminators were so wont to spend their best efforts—viz ., the " Hours of the Blessed

Virgin . " There are no less than twenty-seven examples of this book , several of which are of unusual beauty and excellence . A French " Heures a l ' usage d'Anges " is indeed a gem of its kind , ornamented with thirty-eight miniatures of exquisite finish . This volume belonged to the library of the Cardinal de Soubise , and is described on the fly-leaf as " Superbe Manuscrit , le plus beau de la Bibliotheque de

Soubise . It is m the old red morocco binding , with the Soubise arms on the side and back . Another manuscript of the " Hone Beatse Marias Virginis , " though coarse and rude in its execution , has a great historic interest from having been executed for Isabella of Scotland , daughter of James I . of Scotland , married to Francis I ., Due de Bretagne ,

October 30 , 1442 . The first miniature represents the Duchess Isabeau on her knees , her robe biparted with the arms of Brittany and Scotland . Between the Office for the Dead and the Hours of the Angels the scribe had left seven pages blank , which are filled up with prayers in the autograph of the Duchess Isabeau herself . Another volume of a similar

character , but of surpassing beauty of execution , is an " Officium Divse Mariae Virginis , " adorned with twenty-nine very beautiful miniatures by an Italian artist , or possibly by a French artist who had studied in Italy . Independently of the beauty of the paintings this book is altogether so daintily got up , the vellum of the finest texture , and the

preservation so spotless that it might have been completed but yesterday . An exquisite binding by Derome , with dentelle borders on the sides , makes this splendid volume all that can be looked for in such a book . The foregoing articles do not by any means exhaust the works of interest in the first division , the difficulty being rather to choose from among so many which to describe , than any lack of others worthy of description .

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A FEW PARTING WORDS. Article 1
THE ROMAN COLLEGIA. Article 2
THE LEGEND OF THE INTRODUCTION OF MASONS INTO ENGLAND. Article 5
A MAIDEN. Article 16
THE LECHMERE MS. Article 17
AN OLD SOCIETY. Article 22
Untitled Ad 23
AESTHETICAL. Article 25
A MASONIC ADDRESS. Article 26
CURIOUS BOOKS. Article 30
THE RUINED CITIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Article 31
THE HAMILTON MANUSCRIPTS. Article 37
THE GRANGE. Article 42
REVIEW. Article 44
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. Article 47
MASONIC PROCEEDINGS IN SPAIN. Article 53
LODGE LIBRARIES. Article 58
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The Hamilton Manuscripts.

in this collection for the number of the miniatures , no less than 100 , or the delicacy of their execution . This beautiful book is esteemed to have been made little , if any , later than the lifetime of the author , Jean de Menu , who died in 1364 . A French translation of Diodorus Siculus is remarkable as being the identical copy presented to Francis I .

with his monogram impressed on the sides of the binding . The first page represents the King seated on a throne , surrounded by his courtiers and his three sons ( the Dauphin Francis , afterwards married to Mary Queen of Scots , Henry , afterwards Henry II . of France , and Charles , Duke of Orleans ) . The painting is a chef d ' ceuvre

of the French art of the period from its perfect finish , and the detail is carried out with the greatest minuteness . In such a library of manuscripts we naturally expect to find some fine specimens of that favourite work on which illuminators were so wont to spend their best efforts—viz ., the " Hours of the Blessed

Virgin . " There are no less than twenty-seven examples of this book , several of which are of unusual beauty and excellence . A French " Heures a l ' usage d'Anges " is indeed a gem of its kind , ornamented with thirty-eight miniatures of exquisite finish . This volume belonged to the library of the Cardinal de Soubise , and is described on the fly-leaf as " Superbe Manuscrit , le plus beau de la Bibliotheque de

Soubise . It is m the old red morocco binding , with the Soubise arms on the side and back . Another manuscript of the " Hone Beatse Marias Virginis , " though coarse and rude in its execution , has a great historic interest from having been executed for Isabella of Scotland , daughter of James I . of Scotland , married to Francis I ., Due de Bretagne ,

October 30 , 1442 . The first miniature represents the Duchess Isabeau on her knees , her robe biparted with the arms of Brittany and Scotland . Between the Office for the Dead and the Hours of the Angels the scribe had left seven pages blank , which are filled up with prayers in the autograph of the Duchess Isabeau herself . Another volume of a similar

character , but of surpassing beauty of execution , is an " Officium Divse Mariae Virginis , " adorned with twenty-nine very beautiful miniatures by an Italian artist , or possibly by a French artist who had studied in Italy . Independently of the beauty of the paintings this book is altogether so daintily got up , the vellum of the finest texture , and the

preservation so spotless that it might have been completed but yesterday . An exquisite binding by Derome , with dentelle borders on the sides , makes this splendid volume all that can be looked for in such a book . The foregoing articles do not by any means exhaust the works of interest in the first division , the difficulty being rather to choose from among so many which to describe , than any lack of others worthy of description .

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