scribeof the fourteenth century. The professed scribes vrote^n the yellurri wKjjle
in quires, and it was -bpund intd- volumes after hejng finished. ^ The quire ifr
here represented-as heldrin its place by a apiece ofMead ^u-spen ded to^astiing;
one page is already written,- the other is prepared,*to rrceiye the writing 'In
one hand the writer holds his pen, in thefother a scraper, to|efas§ from ‘|he-
vellum wrong words or letters. On* one side of his seat are- three ink-horns,
to bold IS I different coloured inks. ~The; box within dfe ^chair%|qntains ||i s
writing implements. The other cut represents king Ahaziah sick lp-h^Ey^td-
waitino1 thd return of bis messengers whom he had sentVto consul!*JBadzd^jib
theg'od pf Ekron, and to know if he were destined' ^recover (2 g H g E l
-At mb end of the’fourteenth century people had p |t ‘^ e t laid aside; the
of going -to bed quite naked. ~ - h - A , _.L _
; ‘ Our initial letter is taken from a very-fine large manusc npt^yohime.fjP^h«
fourteenth century, in the British Museum (MS. Burfny,'-ho. a j^ v ^ r a im n g
some of the principal scientific treatises of Prisdan, Bofthius,
Ptolemy. I t is full of .handsome and ^interesting dlumicatol
one we now give, represents a parly of musidani -One is"pl4y|ng OIl^Ly>1"'
which : appe® formerly -to havo been -favourite instruments
music. The use-of them still remaansin our ch u rchA chm e^ In
scripts king David is not unfrequently represented playing upon bells:'"*