| PAGE |
| PREFACE | 1 |
| INTRODUCTION | 5 |
| CHAPTER I |
| THE INFLUENCE OF THE TOOL |
| Writing the Foundation of Illumination—Early Influences—Babylonian Characters—Egyptian Hieroglyphics—The reed and quill Pen—The use of Vellum | 23 |
| CHAPTER II |
| THE DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING IN THE PAST |
| Majuscule Writing—Square Capitals—Rustic Capitals—Uncials—Mixed Uncial and Minuscule Writing—Half-Uncials—Irish Half-Uncials—English Half-Uncials—Minuscule Writing—Lombardic Writing—Visigothic Writing—Merovingian Writing—Carlovingian Writing—Later Styles | 32 |
| CHAPTER III |
| THE PREPARATION AND USE OF THE PEN |
| Cutting the Pen—Simple Exercises | 42 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| THE FORMATION OF LETTERS |
| Letters formed with simple Pen-strokes—Method in working—How the various Letters are formed | 48 |
| CHAPTER V |
| FORMING WORDS AND SENTENCES |
| Writing a short Quotation—Spacing Letters—Italics—Pen-formed Figures | 54 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| ALPHABETS FOR STUDY, BASED ON HISTORICAL EXAMPLES |
| Uncial Letters—Half-Uncials—Writing, from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century | 60 |
| CHAPTER VII |
| ROMAN LETTERING |
| Building up Letters with Pen-strokes—Roman Letters made with simple direct Pen-strokes—The Construction of Roman Capitals | 70 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| SOME HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF ROMAN LETTERING |
| The Alphabet of the Trajan Column—Various Alphabets from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century | 76 |
| CHAPTER IX |
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ILLUMINATION
1. From the Fourth to the Eleventh Century |
| Classical and Byzantine Illumination—Celtic and Anglo-Celtic—Carlovingian—The Winchester School | 84 |
| CHAPTER X |
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ILLUMINATION
2. From the Twelfth Century to the Decline |
| Illumination in the Twelfth Century—Thirteenth Century—Fourteenth Century—Fifteenth Century and later | 93 |
| CHAPTER XI |
| THE INITIAL LETTER |
| How the Decoration springs from the Initial letter—Examples from the Seventh to the Fifteenth Century | 101 |
| CHAPTER XII |
| SIMPLE ILLUMINATION IN BLACK AND RED |
| Method of setting out a Page—Arranging the Lettering—Initial letters, and how to construct them—Various arrangements of Lettering | 107 |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| THE COLOURS USED BY THE MEDIÆVAL ILLUMINATOR |
| Early treatises—Theophilus—The Book of the Art of Cennino Cennini | 115 |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| COLOURS: THEIR COMPOSITION AND PERMANENCE |
| The importance of a knowledge of the different Colours employed—Yellow Pigments—Red Pigments—Blue Pigments—Green Pigments—Brown Pigments—Black Pigments—White Pigments | 123 |
| CHAPTER XV |
| COLOURS: THEIR PREPARATION AND USE |
| Various forms in which Colours are prepared—Mixing Colours—A method of keeping body colours in a convenient form—Preparing a set of Colours for Illuminating | 131 |
| CHAPTER XVI |
| THE GILDING METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES |
| Early gilding methods—Powder gold—The early use of gold-leaf—Raised gilding | 138 |
| CHAPTER XVII |
| THE USE OF GOLD |
| Shell-gold—The use of gold-leaf—How to handle gold-leaf | 146 |
| CHAPTER XVIII |
| ILLUMINATION WITH GOLD AND COLOURS |
| Vellum for Illuminating—Hand-made paper—Brushes—Colour-work | 152 |
| CHAPTER XIX |
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