Transcriber's Notes:Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical error:"...is a (familar -->)familiarfeature in mediæval art...""...the zeal of (Phinehas -->)Phineasin...""...and there (aret wo -->)are twomore...""...picture by (Verrochio -->)Verrocchioin Or S. Michele,...""...and in the 'Rudimenta Grammatices' of (Donatu -->)Donatus1493,...""...his R (represensing -->)representingLot,...""...One Missal was printed at (Basle -->)Basel,...""...Caxton, had (introdnced -->)introducedprinting into England,...""...it is only in Great (Britian -->)Britainand...""...that manuscripts of literary (inportance -->)importancebegin...""...be so eager to (ie -->)liehere,...""...in reference to the (Autor's -->)Author'sname...""...bears the (initals -->)initials, 'W.P.,'...""...combined with a (manuscipt -->)manuscriptnote,..."Footnotes have been moved to end of document.Images interrupting paragraphs have been slightly moved.
Transcriber's Notes:
Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical error:
"...is a (familar -->)familiarfeature in mediæval art...""...the zeal of (Phinehas -->)Phineasin...""...and there (aret wo -->)are twomore...""...picture by (Verrochio -->)Verrocchioin Or S. Michele,...""...and in the 'Rudimenta Grammatices' of (Donatu -->)Donatus1493,...""...his R (represensing -->)representingLot,...""...One Missal was printed at (Basle -->)Basel,...""...Caxton, had (introdnced -->)introducedprinting into England,...""...it is only in Great (Britian -->)Britainand...""...that manuscripts of literary (inportance -->)importancebegin...""...be so eager to (ie -->)liehere,...""...in reference to the (Autor's -->)Author'sname...""...bears the (initals -->)initials, 'W.P.,'...""...combined with a (manuscipt -->)manuscriptnote,..."
Footnotes have been moved to end of document.
Images interrupting paragraphs have been slightly moved.
Footnotes:1Reprinted, by leave of the editor, from 'The Pageant.'2Reprinted, by leave of the editor, from 'The Library,' 1902.3Reprinted from 'The Newberry House Magazine' by leave of Messrs. Griffith, Farren, Okeden and Welsh.4Partially reproduced in photographic facsimile by Mr. Henry Littlehales. (Rivingtons, 1890.)5Reprinted by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., from 'Bibliographica,' vol. ii. (1895).6One of those on the recto has a common original with that of an elephant with a howdah in Doesborgh's 'Van Pape Jans landendes.'7e.g.The cut of a preacher preceded by his little crucifer in the 'Doctrina delle Vita Monastica' of Lorenzo Quistiniano (Venice,c.1495) to a picture by Gentile Bellini in the church of S. Maria del Orto; the cut of S. Thomas in the 'Epistole et Evangeli' of 1495 to the picture byVerrocchio in Or S. Michele, and that of the beheading of S. John from a Pollaiuolo in the Baptistery at Florence. The case of the illustrations to the 1467 'Meditationes' of Turrecremata, which are professedly copied from the frescoes in the church of S. Maria di Minerva at Rome, is an interesting example of this copying, the excellence of the original designs sometimes triumphing over the rudeness of the engraving. Unluckily the frescoes themselves have perished.8The Venetian origin of this cut is made almost certain by the character of its border. In style and touch (cleverly as the reproduction here given has been made from the thickly-painted original, the lines are necessarily thickened) the design is closely akin to the borders in the 'Omelie et Sermones' of S. Bernard (1491), and the 'Dialogo de la Seraphica Virgine S. Caterina' (1494), while in the border and woodcut initials of the 'Supplementum Chronicarum' of 1492 we get both the bull's skull and the dolphin's, and in the 'Rudimenta Grammatices' ofDonatus 1493, a top border to the first page which resembles the lower border in our cut. There is no suggestion of copying here, but a series of designs probably all by the same artist which begin with this border to the 'Arte' in 1490 and can be traced for several years, always at Venice.9Reprinted from the King's College School Magazine by leave of the editor.10In this very medieval Latin the master is always addressed as 'vos,' never as 'tu,' the use of the singular, except to inferiors or as a mark of affection, being regarded as an insult.11Read before the Bibliographical Society, April 1896.12An important extension to the subject, but one which I have not the knowledge to deal with, would treat of the Service-books prepared especially for the English market in Flanders and the north of France during the two centuries preceding the invention of printing. These are often claimed as of English origin, owing to their having English saints in their calendars, but their real provenance is indisputable.13Reprinted, by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. from 'Bibliographica,' vol. iii. (1896).14Hopyl's initials are an inch and a half square on a dotted background. They were evidently designed specially for a Missal, the pictures being appropriate to the services to which the initials belong. They do not make up a complete alphabet, but of several letters there are two or three variants,e.g.for R there are pictures of Death, of the Annunciation, and of the Resurrection; for S, of SS. Cosmo and Damian, of S. Martin and the Beggar, and of the Blessed Virgin.15Since this paper was in type I have been shown an earlier example of this letter in a book printed by R. Wolfe in 1563.16From the introduction to the 'English Bookman's Library,' by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co.17'English Illuminated Manuscripts.' By Sir Edward Maunde Thompson K.C.B. (Kegan Paul, 1895), pp. 66, 67.18From 'Longman's Magazine,' by leave of the publishers.19From 'The Library,' by leave of the editor.20From 'The Library,' by leave of the editor, and Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co.21From 'Macmillan's Magazine,' by leave of the editor and publishers.22Since this article was written, a pleasant volume on the 'Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter' has been brought out by Dorothea Townshend (Fisher Unwin, 1897).23From 'The Guardian.' By leave of the editor.24I am glad in reprinting this article to be allowed to give his name, the Rev. C. P. Phinn.25From the 'Connoisseur,' by leave of the editor.26Our illustration shows the cut in an interesting state, when the original I. of the first initial had been altered to an R. to suit John's descendant Robert. The change is one of a kind with which collectors of book-plates are familiar.27From the 'Library,' by leave of the editor.28This copy, in the possession of Mr. Coningsby Sibthorp, of Sudbrooke Holme, Lincoln, to whose family it has belonged for more than a century, is fully described by Mr. Sidney Lee on p. 171 of his 'Shakespeare's Life and Work.' By a curious coincidence the copy he describes on the previous page is one, now owned by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, which formerly belonged to Ralph Sheldon, who bought Vincent's library. Presumably both copies at one time belonged to him.29From 'Longman's Magazine,' by leave of the publishers.30From 'Longman's Magazine,' by leave of the publishers.31Trophy money was a duty paid by householders for providing the militia with harness, drums, colours, etc.
Footnotes:
1Reprinted, by leave of the editor, from 'The Pageant.'
2Reprinted, by leave of the editor, from 'The Library,' 1902.
3Reprinted from 'The Newberry House Magazine' by leave of Messrs. Griffith, Farren, Okeden and Welsh.
4Partially reproduced in photographic facsimile by Mr. Henry Littlehales. (Rivingtons, 1890.)
5Reprinted by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., from 'Bibliographica,' vol. ii. (1895).
6One of those on the recto has a common original with that of an elephant with a howdah in Doesborgh's 'Van Pape Jans landendes.'
7e.g.The cut of a preacher preceded by his little crucifer in the 'Doctrina delle Vita Monastica' of Lorenzo Quistiniano (Venice,c.1495) to a picture by Gentile Bellini in the church of S. Maria del Orto; the cut of S. Thomas in the 'Epistole et Evangeli' of 1495 to the picture byVerrocchio in Or S. Michele, and that of the beheading of S. John from a Pollaiuolo in the Baptistery at Florence. The case of the illustrations to the 1467 'Meditationes' of Turrecremata, which are professedly copied from the frescoes in the church of S. Maria di Minerva at Rome, is an interesting example of this copying, the excellence of the original designs sometimes triumphing over the rudeness of the engraving. Unluckily the frescoes themselves have perished.
8The Venetian origin of this cut is made almost certain by the character of its border. In style and touch (cleverly as the reproduction here given has been made from the thickly-painted original, the lines are necessarily thickened) the design is closely akin to the borders in the 'Omelie et Sermones' of S. Bernard (1491), and the 'Dialogo de la Seraphica Virgine S. Caterina' (1494), while in the border and woodcut initials of the 'Supplementum Chronicarum' of 1492 we get both the bull's skull and the dolphin's, and in the 'Rudimenta Grammatices' ofDonatus 1493, a top border to the first page which resembles the lower border in our cut. There is no suggestion of copying here, but a series of designs probably all by the same artist which begin with this border to the 'Arte' in 1490 and can be traced for several years, always at Venice.
9Reprinted from the King's College School Magazine by leave of the editor.
10In this very medieval Latin the master is always addressed as 'vos,' never as 'tu,' the use of the singular, except to inferiors or as a mark of affection, being regarded as an insult.
11Read before the Bibliographical Society, April 1896.
12An important extension to the subject, but one which I have not the knowledge to deal with, would treat of the Service-books prepared especially for the English market in Flanders and the north of France during the two centuries preceding the invention of printing. These are often claimed as of English origin, owing to their having English saints in their calendars, but their real provenance is indisputable.
13Reprinted, by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. from 'Bibliographica,' vol. iii. (1896).
14Hopyl's initials are an inch and a half square on a dotted background. They were evidently designed specially for a Missal, the pictures being appropriate to the services to which the initials belong. They do not make up a complete alphabet, but of several letters there are two or three variants,e.g.for R there are pictures of Death, of the Annunciation, and of the Resurrection; for S, of SS. Cosmo and Damian, of S. Martin and the Beggar, and of the Blessed Virgin.
15Since this paper was in type I have been shown an earlier example of this letter in a book printed by R. Wolfe in 1563.
16From the introduction to the 'English Bookman's Library,' by leave of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co.
17'English Illuminated Manuscripts.' By Sir Edward Maunde Thompson K.C.B. (Kegan Paul, 1895), pp. 66, 67.
18From 'Longman's Magazine,' by leave of the publishers.
19From 'The Library,' by leave of the editor.
20From 'The Library,' by leave of the editor, and Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co.
21From 'Macmillan's Magazine,' by leave of the editor and publishers.
22Since this article was written, a pleasant volume on the 'Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter' has been brought out by Dorothea Townshend (Fisher Unwin, 1897).
23From 'The Guardian.' By leave of the editor.
24I am glad in reprinting this article to be allowed to give his name, the Rev. C. P. Phinn.
25From the 'Connoisseur,' by leave of the editor.
26Our illustration shows the cut in an interesting state, when the original I. of the first initial had been altered to an R. to suit John's descendant Robert. The change is one of a kind with which collectors of book-plates are familiar.
27From the 'Library,' by leave of the editor.
28This copy, in the possession of Mr. Coningsby Sibthorp, of Sudbrooke Holme, Lincoln, to whose family it has belonged for more than a century, is fully described by Mr. Sidney Lee on p. 171 of his 'Shakespeare's Life and Work.' By a curious coincidence the copy he describes on the previous page is one, now owned by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, which formerly belonged to Ralph Sheldon, who bought Vincent's library. Presumably both copies at one time belonged to him.
29From 'Longman's Magazine,' by leave of the publishers.
30From 'Longman's Magazine,' by leave of the publishers.
31Trophy money was a duty paid by householders for providing the militia with harness, drums, colours, etc.