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<p>[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 9542007, member: 13761"]A quote from Blades' "Enemies of Books", 1888, pp. 119-120:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The following is copied from a trade catalogue, dated April, 1880, and affords a fair idea of the extent to which these heartless destroyers will go: <i>"MISSAL ILLUMINATIONS. FIFTY DIFFERENT CAPITAL LETTERS on VELLUM</i>; <i><i>all in rich Cold and Colours. Many 3 inches square: the floral decorations are of great beauty, ranging from the XIIth to XVth century. Mounted on stout card-board. IN NICE PRESERVATION, £6 6s</i>.</i></p><p><i>These beautiful letters have been cut from precious MSS., and as specimens of early art are extremely valuable, many of them being worth 15<i>s</i>. each.''</i> "</p><p><br /></p><p>And the possible value of those manuscripts, uncut, today?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 9542007, member: 13761"]A quote from Blades' "Enemies of Books", 1888, pp. 119-120: "The following is copied from a trade catalogue, dated April, 1880, and affords a fair idea of the extent to which these heartless destroyers will go: [I]"MISSAL ILLUMINATIONS. FIFTY DIFFERENT CAPITAL LETTERS on VELLUM[/I]; [I][I]all in rich Cold and Colours. Many 3 inches square: the floral decorations are of great beauty, ranging from the XIIth to XVth century. Mounted on stout card-board. IN NICE PRESERVATION, £6 6s[/I]. These beautiful letters have been cut from precious MSS., and as specimens of early art are extremely valuable, many of them being worth 15[I]s[/I]. each.''[/I] " And the possible value of those manuscripts, uncut, today?[/QUOTE]
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