COMMENTARIES ON ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS illuminated by Guilio Clovio, in the Soane Museum. (Sixteenth Century.) The volume from which they are taken forms the chief ornament of the library of the Soane Museum. It was purchased with two smaller manuscripts of the late Duke of Buckingham, for the sum of one thousand guineas. Commentaries on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (Fourteenth Century) Illuminated by Guilia Clovio, in the Soane Museum. It was purchased with two smaller manuscripts of the late Duke of Buckingham for the sum of one thousand guineas. At this period, and even previously, it became customary only to ornament the first two pages of the works, and sometimes only a single first page, for the more artistic quality of the ornaments rendered the former profusion impossible, except in very rare cases. |