From Albina to A.D. 688Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864 - Great Britain |
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Page xiv - The work, as originally bound, was comprised in six volumes, since rebound in morocco in 12 volumes, folio máximo, vellum, and is illustrated with exquisite miniatures, vignettes, and initial letters. It was written towards the end of the fifteenth century, having been expressly executed for Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Gruthuyse and Earl of Winchester, from whose cabinet it passed into the library of Louis XII.