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The illuminated books of the middle ages : an account of the development and progress of the art of illumination, as a distinct branch of pictorial ornamentation, from the IVth. to the XVIIth. centuries

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MDCCCXLIX [1849]
Call number: 610707
Creator: Humphreys, Henry Noel (1810-1879)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last Trust, June 2022.
Dimensions: 57 cm (folio)
Associated people: Jones, Owen, (1809-1874,); Last, Jay T., (1804 or 1805-1854,); Wright, John,
Associated organization: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
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