“Design” in Use a limited number of pure, bright colours,
Illumination and keep your work clean, neat, and definite.

Go straight ahead, trusting to workman-like
methods, and not calculating overmuch. Do the
work in a regular order, settling, first, the general
scheme, the size of the book, the writing, and the
margins ; then when you are ready—

1. Prepare the sheets (see pp. 65, 76, 133).

2. Write the text—leaving spaces for decoration.

3. Write (a) The coloured writing,
in— (b) The coloured capitals.

(c) The line-finishings.

4. Illum-(tf) The Initials. j Following a regular
inate— (b) Line-finishings. border in the various

(с) The Borders. J processes involved.

5. Bind the book (p. 310), or have it bound, in
order to make a real and finished piece of work.

Practise an artistic economy of time and space:
usually the quicker you write the MS. the better
it is. Allow sufficient margins to make the book
readable and handsome, but not so wide as to make
it appear fanciful. Allow sufficient ornament, not
overloading the book with it. Let the ornament be
of a type suited to the book and to the subject—
not too painstaking or elaborate in an ordinary MS. ;
not too hasty and slight in an important work.

Endeavour to strike a balance between what may
be called “practical” and “ornamental” considera¬
tions : an illuminated MS. is not meant to be entirely
“practical,” but it is a greater failure if made entirely
“ornamental.” Let the text be readable in every
sense, and let the ornament beautify it : there should
be give and take, as it were, and that most desirable
quality—“sweet reasonableness.”

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84 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. “Design” in

Illumination

The SPRINGER.

The White-Antelope, which is fuppofed to be the fame
with the Pygarg, mentioned in the book of Numbers, is
an inhabitant of the Cape of Good Hope, where it is
called the Spring-bok ; and is to be feen in herds of fe-
veral thoufands, covering the plains as far as the eye can
reach. Sparrman fays, that, having flaot at a large herd
of them, they formed a line, and immediately made a
circular movement, ns if to furround him; but after¬
wards flew off in different direûions.

The height of this beautiful creature is two feet and 3
Fig. 132.

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