Wales, Briton and Cymry, 34 Welsh, meaning of the word, 31 Westwood (Professor), 33, 37 William the Trouvere, 88 Winchester school of writing, 59 Wulfila, Gothic Bishop, 31 York school of writing, 44, 59 York use in Liturgy, 69 Zend writing, 19 [Illustration: PORTION OF A FUNERARY INSCRIPTION. _Written on papyrus in the Hieroglyphic character._] [Illustration: EGYPTIAN INSCRIPTION. _Written on papyrus in the Demotic character._] [Illustration: A PAGE FROM A COPTIC LITURGY. _Written in Egypt in the fifteenth century._] [Illustration: SAMARITAN MS. ON VELLUM, PROBABLY SEC. XV. _Leviticus, X. 16 to XI. 13._] [Illustration: A MINIATURE IN THE TAMHERA MARYAM. _An Ethiopic work on the life of the Virgin, written in 1522._] [Illustration: THE FIRST PAGE OF ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL. _From a Greek MS. of the Tenth Century, brought by Cesnola from Cyprus._] [Illustration: A PAGE FROM MACDURNAN'S GOSPELS. _A MS. written in Ireland in the Ninth Century, now at Lambeth._] [Illustration: THE FIRST PAGE OF GENESIS. _In a Latin Bible, written probably in England about 1290-1300._] [Illustration: THE FIRST PAGE OF GENESIS. _In a Latin Bible written in France about 1310-20._] [Illustration: THE SECOND ANGEL BLOWING HIS TRUMPET. _From a series of unfinished designs illustrating the Apocalypse; executed at Nuneaton about A.D. 1280._] [Illustration: MINIATURE OF THE CRUCIFIXION. _In a Missale written by an Italian hand about 1290._] [Illustration: CRISEIS SENT BACK TO THE GREEKS. _From a MS. of the Liber Trojanus written at Venice about 1325._] [Illustration: A PAGE FROM THE REVELATIONS. _In a French MS. Apocalypse Figurée, written about 1360._] [Illustration: FIRST PAGE OF THE ROMAN DE LA ROSE. _MS. written in France about 1370._] [Illustration: JOHN GOWER AND THE PRIEST OF VENUS. _From a MS. of Gower's Confessio Amantis, written before 1399._] [Illustration: A PAGE FROM A LIVRE D'HEURES. _Written at Tournay about 1465._] [Illustration: TIBERIUS RECEIVING THE IMPERIAL CROWN. _From a MS. of the Miroir Historial, written probably at Bruges about 1470._] [Illustration: CHRIST IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. _From the Prayer book of Grey, Marquis of Dorset, about 1470._] [Illustration: ADORATION OF THE MAGI. _From an Italian Chorale written about 1530-40._] [Illustration: AN ABBOT AND MONKS KNEELING BEFORE AN ALTAR. _From an Evangeliarium illuminated in Flemish style by a German hand in 1548._] [Illustration: MINIATURE OF THE ASCENSION. _From the Suabian Breviary written at Ottenbeuern about 1160._] [Illustration: THE FIRST PAGE OF THE OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN. _From the Bentivoglio Prayerbook, written in Italy about 1520._] * * * * * Corrections made to printed text Page 9: 'The hieratic character was simply an abridgment of the hieroglyphic' corrected from 'The hieratic character was simply an abridgment of the hieratic' (!) Page 31: 'Gothic th' corrected from 'Gothie th'