Inscrip tions In an Inscription which is much above the eye
in Stone level, the letters may be narrower in proportion to
their height, and the horizontal strokes extra thick
to allow for foreshortening. (See also pp. 315, 234.)

The advantages of working in situ are great, for
by so doing the carver sees his work under the same
conditions of light and environment that it will
finally be seen under.

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NOTES ON THE PLATES

(Note.—In order to make the illustrations [whether of facsimiles
or enlargements] as large and as full as possible, I have sacrificed
“ appearance ” to use and allowed most of the plates, and many of
the diagrams in the book, to encroach on the margins.

-E. J.)

GENERAL NOTE.—All the plates are in facsimile as
to size (or nearly so, allowing for errors in reproduction)
except I, II, XXII, and XXIV, which had to be
reduced, and, therefore only portions of the MSS. can be
shown. Note.—All the MSS. are on “Vellum” (see
p. 139). In order to get a better impression of the size
and general proportion of a MS., the student might
reconstruct it—or at least mark off the margins, text,
&c.—on paper, from the measurements given. Or a
sheet of paper might be cut to the size of the given page
or opening, with an aperture (in its proper place) through
which the plate might be viewed.

The plates are arranged in chronological order as
nearly as possible. They are intended briefly to illus¬
trate the Development of the Formal Book Hands from the
Roman Capital and the General Development of the Illumi¬
nated MS.: I hope, moreover, that, fragmentary as they
are, they will prove usefully suggestive in regard to the
Arrangement of Text and Lettering and Ornament. The
wonderful effect of the colouring cannot be given here,
but, in any case, the illuminator should look at some
original MSS. Several of the MSS. from which the
plates are taken are exhibited in the British Museum.

PLATE I.—Portion of Inscription on base of Trajan

Column,x Rome, circa a.d. i 14 Scale approx. \th linear.

THE STONE (within the internal line of the
moulding): 3 feet 9 inches high, and 9 feet f inch long.

1 There is a cast (No. 1864-128) in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, South Kensington, where also the photograph of the
inscription is obtainable, from portions of which Plates I and
II are reproduced.

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Notes on
Plates