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Title: Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

Author: P. L. Jacob


Release date: February 1, 2004 [eBook #10940]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND DRESS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES AND DURING THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD ***

The Queen of Sheba before Solomon
The Queen of Sheba before Solomon

(Costume of 15th century.)

Fac-simile of a miniature from the Breviary of the Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Memling. Bibl. of S. Marc, Venice. (From a copy in the possession of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot.)

The King inclines his sceptre towards the Queen indicating his appreciation of her person and her gifts; five ladies attend the Queen and five of the King's courtiers stand on his right hand.

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period.

By Paul Lacroix
(Bibliophile Jacob),
Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris.

Illustrated with
Nineteen Chromolithographic Prints by F. Kellerhoven
and upwards of
Four Hundred Engravings on Wood.