vered in the Chateau .dé» Bayard by a distinguished artist ctf Lyon, -M. Richard,
who bought it of'the proprietor and
t im p.- f r o m imminent "destruction, threatened in_ this instapcèk
of its possessor. From M. Richard it passed, in j^chille -'Jti^ihal,
who has given a faithful representation of R_in his workj^rL, Tapegti&eS,,'! and
who afterwards presented it, to the T5ibhothèque|ptik Roi,^'^ Faris.^ lti^npw
adorns the wall of one of 'the staircases in thajt noble estab^hment. ,
Our initial letter, which represents St. Mark 1% "Evangelist,Ms&’taken from
tile same printed volume which has »furnished us-with initials^^prese^Eng the
three other Evangelists. ‘ The 'wöod-cut at .thh 'fèót d||the^cesènt ‘‘page
sents an iron knocker of the fifteenth ‘century,Tm' the possession, of M. Dbgué
of Paris. It is seven inches and a half long.
