This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...fifteenth and sixteenth century pictures to the Louvre; and later still this remarkable legacy from the Duc d'Aumale restored to France some of her own most valuable treasures. By means of these acquisitions this patriotic Prince has constructed a monument to French Art which is as interesting as it is unique. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...fifteenth and sixteenth century pictures to the Louvre; and later still this remarkable legacy from the Duc d'Aumale restored to France some of her own most valuable treasures. By means of these acquisitions this patriotic Prince has constructed a monument to French Art which is as interesting as it is unique. The Cabinet des Livres at Chantilly, still just as it was when occupied by the Duc d'Aumale, with his chair, his writing-table, his reading-lamp and halfburnt candle, contains no less than fourteen thousand Phota fiirandon. FEBRUARY. Pot de Ltmbonrg. From The "Ties Riehes Heures du Due de Berry.." THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE GALLIC WAR 157 manuscripts of the very highest importance. The most noteworthy amongst these are: the first ten books of St. Augustine's Citd de Dieu (translated by Raoul de Presler); Aristotle's Ethics (translated by Nicolas Orme; Livy's Second Decade (translated by Pierre Bersuire); all of which at one time belonged to the Duc de Berry. Then there is the third volume of the Gallic IVar, a free translation of the Commentaries of Caesar,1 on the last page of which is the following inscription: Albertus Pichius, auxilio Godofredi pictoris Batavi faciebat praecipiete Francisco Molinio mense novembris anno quinquimillesimo vigesimo; whence we derive information regarding the date of its completion, the names of the artists who were entrusted with it and even the name of the man who commissioned it on behalf of Francis I. Most interesting are a selection of the Table Ronde used by Gaston Paris in Vol. XXX of the Histoire litteraire de la France and a copy of Dante's Inferno with a Commentary by Guido of Pisa. Furthermore a French translation of Cicero's Rhetorics written in 1282 by Master Jean d'Antioch and commissioned by a monk ...
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