 | sir Matthew Digby Wyatt - 1861 - 202 pages
...vast variety of laoertine animals and birds, hideously attenuated, and coiled one within another, with their tails, tongues, and top-knots forming long narrow...pages, with which the finest manuscripts are decorated. The Irish missionaries brought their national style of art with them from lona to Lindisfarne in the... | |
 | Ireland. Public Record Office - 1869 - 1064 pages
...and birds, hideously attenuated and coiled one within another, their tails, tongues, and top-kuots forming long, narrow ribbons, irregularly interlaced...with which the finest manuscripts are decorated," "Especially deserving of notice" (continues Professor Westwood) "is the extreme delicacy and wonderful... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1878 - 558 pages
...their tails, tongues, and top-knots forming long narrow ribbons irregularly interlaced. 4th, A scries of diagonal lines, forming various kinds of Chinese-like...as to form the large initial letters and borders or tes&elated pages with which the first manuscripts were decorated." Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Vol.... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1892 - 488 pages
...another, with their tails, tongues, and top-knots forming long narrow ribbons irregularly iuterlaccd. 4th, A series of diagonal lines, forming various kinds...as to form the large initial letters and borders or tesselated pages with which the first manuscripts were decorated. of Scotla1ul, Vol. II., App. to Pref.,... | |
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A vast variety of laoertine animals and birds, hideously attenuated, and coiled one within another, with their tails, tongues, and top-knots forming long narrow ribbons irregularly interlaced. 4th. A series of diagonal lines, forming various kinds of... 