[4]
A vignette of pure and true tnedievalism: the long and
solitary watching, the saintly pursuit of divine wisdom, the
wide-open book, with the bold and beautiful text, and the
quaint decoration, wrought by loving hands, and the inevitable
miracle,--the suggestion of a Divine Providence
watching over and protecting all that is sacred.
[1] Strutt, Saxon Antiq., i. 105, pl. xviii. The picture is in a
large volume containing part of a grammar and certain other
pieces used at Glastonbury.--MS. Auct. F. iv. 32. Over the
picture is the inscription: Pictura et scriptura
hujus paginae subtus visa est de propria muanu Sci. Dunstani.
[2] Stubbs, Mem. of Dunstan, cx.-cxii.
[3] Chron. Mon. de Abingdon, ii. 263.
[4] Ibid., ii. 265.
Some beautiful examples of work of this period have been
preserved. "Winchester" work is a familiar and expressive
term in illumination, and nobody will ask why this is so if
they have seen a manuscript executed there towards the
end of the tenth century. The Benedictional and Missal
of Archbishop Robert, which is certainly English, and most
likely an example of New Minster work, is illuminated with
miniatures, foliated and architectural borders, and capitals
and letters of gold, in virile workmanship.
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