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CLASSICAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.

Use of minium; Egyptian miniatures; illuminations in Roman manuscripts; Greek illuminations; two sources of knowledge about classical illuminations; the Ambrosian _Iliad_; the Vatican Virgil; the style of its miniatures; later copies of lost originals; picture of Orpheus in a twelfth century _Psalter_; another _Psalter_ with copies of classical paintings; the value of these copied miniatures.