CHAPTER X SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ILLUMINATION

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Late period of Spanish illumination—Isidore of Seville—Archives at Madrid—Barcelona—Toledo—Madrid—Choir-books of the Escorial—PhilipII.—Illuminators of the choir-books—The size and beauty of the volumes—Fray AndrÉs de Leon and other artists—Italian influence—Giovanni Battista Scorza of Genoa—Antonio de Holanda, well-known Portuguese miniaturist in sixteenth century—His son Francesco—The choir-books at Belem—French invasion—Missal of GonÇalvez—Sandoval Genealogies—Portuguese Genealogies in British Museum—The Stowe Missal of JohnIII.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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