Illustrations From One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Illustrations From One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, Vol. 2: Containing Fifty Plates Illustrating Ten Italian Mss. From the Xith to the Xvith CenturiesBesides the Convent in Carbonaria there are two others, that of Lipari and that of Penna in the-diocese of Naples, both dedicated to Saint Bartholomew, for which this volume might possibly have been written. Who knows?From a comparison of the initials in this volume with the decorae tion of ms. 99 H, 1072, 206, Omilie Diverse, now preserved-in the Convent of Monte Cassino, which I saw on visiting that noble estab lishment in 1904, I think it pretty certain that the two volumes were illuminated and probably written by the same hand, that of the Monk Leon, during the reign of the Abbot Desiderius a.d. 1058-1087 and for this reason I have ventured to date my book about three-quarters of a century earlier than Dr. James put it when describing it in my catalogue ten years ago. The style of the Monte Cassino-illuminators attained its climax during the reign of the Abbot Desiderius.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.