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Border of the Title-page (No.

Littlington's

from Abbot

taken

is

Westminster Abbey Library

Missal,

we must

ho ever,

i)

parenthetically

were

admit,

(title-pages

unknown

in

the

of illuminated MSS.).

The

other Borders are derived as follows

For the Annunciation (No.

Cent.

British

Museum

For the Magnificat (No.

Cent.

15th

For
British

British

the

Museum

Copy

2).

MSS.

(Addl.

of the

(Addl.

Hours of the

3).

(Harl.

MSS.

Gospels,

13th

17,341).

Blessed

Virgin,

2,900).

Legend of Christmas Eve (No.

Museum

Bedford Missal,

4).

18,850).

For the Angels appearing to the Shepherds (No. 5).

Italian
MS. 14th and 15th Cent.
In the possession of Captain Ottley.
For the Nativity (No.

Abbot

6).

Littlington's

For the Adoration of the Shepherds (No.

14th -and

15th

Cent.

In

For the Carol (No.

MS.

in

the

B.

the

V.

15th

Presentation
Cent.

Butler,

the

in

For the Adoration of the

Museum

(Addl.

For the Flight

Century,

lV

*****

in

MS.

Ottley.

MSS.

Esq.

Temple

Museum

British

For the Song of Simeon (No.

Museum (MS. 83).

British

of Captain

Italian

Border and Vignette from a French

8).

the possession of C.

For

possession

the

7).

Missal.

(No.

(Harl.

10).

Arundel

Magi (No.

9).

Hours

11).

Psalter,

British

Bedford

Missal

18,850).

into

Egypt (No.

the

possession

12).

of C.

of

2,900).

French MS. 14th

Butler,

Esq.

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(No.

added

be

should

elucidation

further

In

2)

an

after

is

instead

The words
borrowed
the

of

Postevangelion,

an

or

striking language

15

"While

midst

the

in

all

of

her

down from heaven

of

the

Book

of

in

quiet

silence,

were

things

swift

Thy

royal

It

moment when
chap,

xviii.

14,

and that night was

Almighty Word leaped

throne."

The words of the Carol (No. 8)

Museum (2,593), and will

are

MSS.
who may

from the Sloane

be found, by any

the British

in

are

4)

Testament.

Wisdom,

Thine

course,

of

out

been

Account

Historical

New

Apocryphal

the

in

the

in

has

Visitation

the

has been adopted as marking very appositely that

in the

Annunciation

the

MS.

the

in

of

it^^

treated,

Legend of Christmas Eve (No.

the

of Christ,"

Birth

of

vignette

one

The

"

from

of

subjects

copy of the Gospels

in

the

of

border

left-hand
letter

initial

Museum, and

British

introduced

of

the

that

some

of

wish to consult the original, at pp. 27, 28.

This reference is not
unnecessary for those who are unacquainted with the book and
the

peculiar

reading of

style
it

as

MSS.

of the

given

in

It

only right to say that the

is

"Christmas Tide,

Sandy's

History,

its

Carols, &c." has been followed almost literatim.

The

Temple,"

the

in

one

subject

with

Simeon

"

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which

not

is

is

it

9,

commonly

strictly

often

called

"

The

Presentation

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confounded,

viz.

"

the

Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Madonna).

the

Order

Purification,

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the

visit

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accordance

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:

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the

there

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the

No.

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occupied
of

doubt

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