[21]Augustus W. Franks, ‘Vitreous Art,’ p. 14 inArt Treasures of the United Kingdom, a book which was brought out in connexion with the Manchester Exhibition of 1857.
[22]Mr. Arthur Evans recognizes a Keltic physiognomy in the eyes of theicuncula; but for me the eyes are as if they were not, being so much sunk out of their place, that through infirmity of sight I am unable to verify them.
[23]Appendix B.
[24]Appendix C.
[25]And þa comon hi ymb vii niht to londe on Cornwalum, and foron þa sona to Ælfrede cyninge.
[26]For the Irish illumination above referred to I have relied uponFacsimiles of Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. By J. O. Westwood. London, 1868. Plate XI.
[27]‘The back, or reverse, is a plate of gold lying immediately upon the back of the miniature, and this is beautifully worked in foliage.’ Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A., in theReliquaryfor October, 1878: vol. xx, p. 66.
[28]Here I follow the old copy of this drawing in Hickes’sThesaurus(1705) facing p. viij.
[29]Appendix D.