Illuminated Manuscripts (Classic Reprint)

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My thanks are due to the late Sir T. Brooke, Mr. H. Yates Thompson, and the Rev. E. S. Dewick, for the plate from Mr. Dewick's edition of the Metz Pontifical. I have also to thank Mr. Thompson for giving me repeated access to his splendid collection, and for leave to reproduce a page from his Hours of Jeanne de Navarre. The plate from Kraus's edition of the Codex Egberti is given by kind permission of Messrs. Herder, the publishers; those from the Codex Rossanensis and Codex Gertrudianus, by kind permission of my friend Dr. A. Haseloff. For the plate from the Peterborough Psalter I have to thank the President and Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries for those from the Tres Riches Heures and the Quarante Fouquet, M. Gustave Macon, Conservateur-adjoint of the MusÃ©e CondÃ©. I am further indebted to many other possessors or custo dians of manuscripts, notably to M. Omont at Paris, Mr. Madan at Oxford, Mr. Palmer at S. Kensington, and PÃ©re van den Gheyn at Brussels. Finally, I wish to record my gratitude to three friends who have laid me under specially great Miss Evelyn Underhill, my colleague Mr. G. F. Hill, and, above all, my depart mental chief, Sir George Warner, Keeper of mss. In the British Museum. The extent of my debt to the last-named, indeed, is but faintly suggested on the dedication-page and in the footnotes.