Notes on the The “White Vine Pattern" (see p. 168), most deU-
Plates cately and beautifully drawn, interlaces with the letter
and itself, and covers the BACKGROUND very evenly.
The interstices of the background are painted in blue,
red, and green, and its edge is adapted to the slightly
projecting flowers and leaves. There are groups (.. and
...) of white dots on the blue parts of the background.

THE BORDER (of which a small part is shown)
is approximately \ inch wide in the narrow margin at
the side of the text—it is separate from the Initial. It
extends above and below the text, where its depth is
greater, matching the greater depth of the margins. Its
treatment is similar to, though perhaps a little simpler
than, that of the Initial decoration.

PLATE XIX.—Italian MS., dated 1481. Exlibris
S. C. Cockerell.

“Part of a [verso] page from a book containing the
Psalter of St. Jerome and various Prayers, written and
decorated by Joachinus de Gigantibus of Rotenberg in
1481 for Pope Sixtus IV. Joachinus was employed at
Naples by Ferdinand I., and there are other fine examples
of his work at the British Museum and the Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris. In each of these, as well as in the
present book, he states that he was both scribe and

illuminator.”—[S. C. C.] .

THE VOLUME contains 31 leaves (b\ inches by
4І inches): MARGINS, approx.: Inner $ inch, Head
I inch, Side xi inch, Foot if inch. (The head margin,
together with the edge of the book-cover, is shown in the

PkTHE WRITING.—Very clear, slightly slanted-pen
“Roman.” Note the blending of b and p with e and О
(see fig. 176, & p. 43). The CAPITALS are quite
simple and plain, made (in (A)NIMA CHRISTI and in
text) in black with the text pen. Note the long, waved

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serifs (see p. 253). The two lines of capitals preceding Notes on
the prayer are made in burnished gold with a larger pen. Plates
TUE INITIAL A, its frame, the frame of the border,
and the ‘furred” berries (.•.) are all in burnished gold,
outlined black. The “white vine pattern” is rather
simpler, and has a rather thicker stalk (in proportion)
than that in the previous plate (see above). Its treatment
is very similar, but it may be noted that the border is in
this case attached to the Initial, and the pattern has almost
an appearance of springing from the Initial. The pattern
—save one escaped leaf—is straitly confined, by gold
bars, throughout the length of the text, but at the ends
it is branched out and beautifully flourished in the free
margins above and below. These terminals of the pattern
having a broad blue outline (dotted white) may be said
to carry their background with them.

The (recto) page opposite that shown in the plate has
an initial D and a border similarly treated, and each one
of the Psalms and Prayers throughout the book is begun
in like manner.

PLATE XX.—One page of an Italian {late) Fifteenth-
century MS. Ex libris S. C. Cockerell.

“From a book containing the Penitential Psalms in
Italian, the Psalter of St. Jerome, and various prayers.

Written with great delicacy by Mark of Vicenza for
some one named Evangelista [see nth line] in the last
quarter of the fifteenth century. Other works of this
accomplished scribe are known.”—[S. C. C.J
. THE VOLUME—of which a complete (recto) page
is shown—contains 60 leaves (si inches by з| inches):

MARGINS, approx.: Inner £ inch, Head | inch, Side
ifV inch, Foot ij-£ inch.

This very fine WRITING is typical of the practical
style and beautiful workmanship which should be the aim
of a modern scribe (see pp. 13, 274).

It is written with a very narrow nib, hence the pen-
forms are not so obvious as in some early formal hands;

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