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MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CAROLINGIAN PERIOD.

The age of Charles the Great; the school of Alcuin of York; the _Gospels_ of Alcuin; the _golden Gospels_ of Henry VIII.; the _Gospels_ of the scribe Godesscalc; Persian influence; technical methods; the later Carolingian manuscripts; continuance of the Northumbrian influence; beginning of life-study; the _Gospels_ of Otho II.; period of decadence in the eleventh century.