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Russian manuscript painting, (1898). 'Fig 1: From a Gospel of the 14th century in the Imperial Public Library. Figs 3, 12 and 13: From Psalteries in the library of the Trinity Cloister near Moscow. Figs 4 and 5: From Psalteries in the Imperial Public Library, Figs 6 and 7: From Gospels in the Rumjantzoff Museum, Moscow. Fig 8: Book-ornament, 15th century from Rostow. Figs 9 and 15: From a prayer book in the Cloister of Miracles, Moscow. Figs 10 and 11: Fractions of alphabetical characters, 14th century. Fig 14: From a prayer book in the Bjeloserski Cloister, 15th century. Fig 16: From a Gospel in the Cloister of Marys glorification near Nowgorod. Fig 17: From a Psaltery of the 15th century. Fig 18: Book-ornament from the work "Appendice à l'imitation de Jesus-Christ". Fig 19: From a 12th century Gospel in the Rumjantzoff Museum, Moscow'. Plate 34a from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)