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. CHAPTER IV. Page 45 to 61. BYZANTINE MANUSCRIPTS. The very compound character of Byzantine art; love of splendour; _Gospels_ in purple and gold; monotony of the Byzantine style; hieratic rules; fifth century manuscript of _Genesis_; the Dioscorides of the Princess Juliana; the style of its miniatures; imitations of enamel designs; early picture of the Crucifixion in the _Gospels_ of Rabula; the splendour of Byzantine manuscripts of the _Gospels_; five chief pictures; illuminated "Canons"; Persian influence; the Altar-Textus used as a Pax; its magnificent gold covers; the Durham Textus; Byzantine figure drawing, unreal but decorative; Byzantine mosaics; the iconoclast schism, and the consequent decadence of Byzantine art. CHAPTER V. Page 62 to 79. 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. CHAPTER VI. Page 80 to 97. THE CELTIC SCHOOL OF MANUSCRIPTS. The Irish Church; Celtic goldsmiths; technical processes of the metal-workers copied by illuminators of manuscripts; the _Book of Kells_, its perfect workmanship and microscopic illuminations; copies of metal spiral patterns; the "trumpet pattern;" Moslem influence; absence of gold in the Irish manuscripts; the _Book of Durrow_; the monks of Iona; the Celtic missionaries to Northumbria; the _Gospels_ of St Cuthbert; the Viking pirates; the adventures of St Cuthbert's _Gospels_; the Anglo-Celtic school; improved drawing and use of gold; Italian influence; the early _Gospels_ in the Corpus library; the _Gospels_ of MacDurnan; the _Book of Deer_; the _Gospels_ of St Chad; the Celtic school on the Continent; the _Psalter_ of St Augustine; Scandinavian art; the _golden Gospels_ of Stockholm and its adventures; the struggle between the Celtic and the Roman Church; the Synod of Whitby; the Roman victory, and the growth of Italian influence; the school of Baeda at Durham. CHAPTER VII. Page 98 to 105. THE ANGLO-SAXON SCHOOL OF MANUSCRIPTS.