Library of the World's Best Literature ANCIENT AND MODERN CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER EDITOR THE DURHAM BOOK. page from the HAMILTON LOT, MASFEved in the British Museum. LUCIA GILBERT BUNKLE of illumination, which Thi is a reproduction of appears to have ariseEORGE HENRY WARNER seventh centuries. The style is formed by an artistic and ingenious interweaving of threads, bands and ribbons of various colors, upon black or colored grounds, varied by the introbirds and other animals duction of extremely attenuLATEEDITORS, own only to the fauna of the illuminator's imagination. Thi manuscript, as is shown by an entry at the end of the book, was the hand work of the Eadfrith, Abbot of Lindisfarne, who wrote it in honor of God and St Cuthbert, the illuminations bng executed by the These f who later became Abbot. Ham acles Monk Othewald, date of the work as between 698 esteem and later chronicles of DurAs is usual in such it worked. reate marvelous tales of the works, the grandest pages afe those devoted to the beginnings of the gospels, the one shown in the plate being that of St. John. The interlinear translation the Latin into the Saxon is of a much more recent date than the rest of the manuscript. Memorial Edition De Luxp FORTY-SIX VOLUMES VOL. XXXIII. NEW YORK J. A. HILL & COMPANY |