| James Townley - 1847 - 620 страници
...scarce, that about the year 1124, one master Hugh, being appointed by the convent of St. Edmundsbury, in Suffolk, to write and illuminate a grand copy of the...could procure no parchment for this purpose in England ! And in the great revenue-roll of John Gurveys, bishop of Winchester, AD 1226, there is an item of... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 624 страници
...societies. About the year 1120, one Master Hugh, being appointed by the convent of St. Edmondsbury, in Suffolk, to write and illuminate a grand copy of the...procure no parchment for this purpose in England." f Paper made of cotton, however, was certainly in common use in the twelfth century, though no evidence... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 страници
...societies. About the year 1120, one Master Hugh, being appointed by the convent of St. Edmondsbury, in Suffolk, to write and illuminate a grand, copy of...procure no parchment for this purpose in England." f Paper made of cotton, however, was certainly in common use in the twelfth century, though no evidence... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 страници
...societies. About the year 1120, one Master Hugh, being appointed by the convent of St. Edmondsbury, in Suffolk, to write and illuminate a grand copy of the...procure no parchment for this purpose in England." f Paper made of cotton, however, was certainly in common use in the twelfth century, though no evidence... | |
| Nathaniel Rogers (M.D.) - 1870 - 36 страници
...find the following notice : — " One Martin Hugh, being appointed by the convent of St. Edmonbury to write and illuminate a grand copy of the Bible,...procure no parchment for this purpose in England." Indeed, the constant objection to parchment was its expense ; and this led to the adoption of cheaper,... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1871 - 362 страници
...focieties. About the year 1120 one mafter Hugh, being appointed by the convent of Saint Edmondibury in Suffolk to write and illuminate a grand copy of the...their library, could procure no parchment for this purpofe in England.1 In confequence of the tafte for letters and liberal ftudies introduced by the... | |
| 1884 - 396 страници
...by the fact that when Martin Hugh, a monk, was ordered by the convent of St. Edmund's Bury in 1120 to write and illuminate a grand copy of the Bible for their library, he was unable to proceed with his task owing to his inability to procure the requisite parchment When... | |
| John William Bradley - 1888 - 406 страници
...HUGH, BROTHER. Illuminator. Saec. XI I. A Monk of St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk. Appointed by the Prior to write and illuminate a grand copy of the Bible for their library. — Dugdale : Monasticon Anglicanum, \. 200. HUGO! Illuminator- Saec. xn. Executed the ornamentation... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1879 - 796 страници
...these societies. About 1120, one Master Hugh being appointed by the Convent of St. Edmundsbury, in Suffolk, to write and illuminate a grand copy of the Bible for the library, could procure no parchment in England. Paper made from cotton rags was in common use in... | |
| Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill - 1998 - 660 страници
...year 1120, "one Martin Hugh, being appoinred by the convent of St. Edmundbury to wrire and illuminare a grand copy of the Bible, for their library, could...procure no parchment for this purpose in England." Vellum, a finer kind of parchment, made from the skins of very young calves, was also prepared and... | |
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