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[527] MSS. Mus. Brit. 14 E. 1. This miniature has been reproduced by Father Gasquet in the paper quoted above.
[528] MSS. Mus. Brit., MSS. Harl. 4375, f. 151 _b_.
[529] _The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury_: ed. E. C. Thomas, London, 1888.
[530] Printed in _Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses_, Band III. 4to. Wien, 1885.
[531] Lerou de Lincey, _Melanges de la Societe des Bibliophiles_, 1850, p.
231.
[532] MSS. Mus. Brit. 15 E. VI.
[533] MS. Mus. Brit. 20 C. V.
[534] Paris, Bibliotheque de l'a.r.s.enal, MS. 5193, fol. 311. Boccacio: _Cas des malheureux n.o.bles hommes et femmes_.
[535] Paris, Bibl. Nat., MSS. Francais, 50, _Le Miroir Historial_, by Vincent de Beauvais, fol. 340. Probably written in cent. XV.
[536] MSS. Mus. Brit. Add. 35321. MSS. Waddesdon, No. 12. Bequeathed by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild.
[537] MSS. Bodl. Lib. Oxf., MSS. Rawl. Liturg. e. 24, fol. 17 _b_.
[538] MSS. Bibliotheque Royale de Bruxelles, No. 9242. _Chroniques de Hainaut_, Pt. I. fol. 2, 1446.
[539] MSS. Bibl. Nat. Paris, MSS. Fran. 9198. See _Miracles de Nostre Dame_, by J. Mielot, Roxburghe Club, 1885; with introduction by G. F.
Warner, M.A.
[540] MSS. Cotton, Augustus, VI. fol. 213 _b_. There is a beautiful example of a table and desk on this plan in a MS. of _La Cite des Dames_, from the old Royal Library of France in the Bibl. Nat., MSS. Fran. 1177.
[541] MSS. Bodl. Lib. Oxf., MSS. Douce, No. 381, fol. 159. A second example occurs in the same MS., fol. 160.
[542] I have to thank my friend Sidney Colvin, M.A., for drawing my attention to this picture.
[543] See above, pp. 37, 38.
[544] MSS. Mus. Brit. 18 E. IV.
[545] _Le Debat de l'honneur entre trois Princes chevalereux_. Bibil. Roy.
Bruxelles, No. 9278, fol. 10. The MS. is from the library of the Dukes of Burgundy, and may be dated in the second third of the fifteenth century.
[546] The original words are 'seize pas de vuide.' The substantive 'pas'
must I think mean a foot, the length a foot makes when set upon the ground. The word pace, the length of which is 2 ft. 6 in. or 3 ft., is inapplicable here.
[547] _Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne._ Made English by Ch.
Cotton, Vol. III. pp. 53, 54. 8vo. London, 1741. I have to thank my friend Mr A. F. Sieveking for this reference.
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