We passed into the chamber where my master was wont to paint his missals and psalters when he would be alone.
The distinct neatness of her beautiful calligraphy appealed to his love for missals and the lost art, as he feared, of the true scribe.
But he loved mediaeval illumination, and owned too many thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Bibles, Psalters, and Missals to be described in this chapter.
The ornamental borders, however, of many missals and prayer-books, which then issued in great numbers from the Parisian press, frequently display great beauty.
Among the numerous treasures which Gundulph gave to his church, he included a copy of the Gospels, two missals and a book of Epistles.
A large fire was lighted in the principal plaza, and the two missals were thrown into it.
Cosimo was so pleased with the books, that he employed the successful purveyor to supply the illuminated Psalters and Missals for the Church of the new Convent of San Marco.
At Richmond was a small collection made by his father, consisting chiefly of missals and romances.
As to the other statues--prophets wearing the Jewish cap with ears, and kings holding missals or sceptres, they too are impossible to identify.
Now for the chimerical fauna introduced from the East, imported into Europe by the Crusaders, and travestied by the illuminators of missals and by image-makers.
Two missals of the xvth century--of which one presents only a few interesting prints connected with art.
Recourse was next had to the ancient missals and the decrees of the Stoglaf, a sort of ecclesiastical code attributed to a national council.
The errors of the manuscripts from which they were printed received from thesemissals the authority and circulation of type.
The missals which issued from the Russian presses of the sixteenth century at first only aggravated the evils for which they should have afforded a remedy.
Shall he cut initial letters from missals and other manuscripts, and insult the shades of Fust and Schoeffer by making a senseless collection of colophons?
The last time she had gone thither was just after Miss Aynton's first arrival, when she had taken that young lady to see some curious missals there deposited, containing certain initial letters which Rose was desirous of copying.
You can see the ideas they brought back with the relics and missals and enamels they bought in Byzantium.
As we have already noticed in connection with the Mazarin Bible, the forms of the types were copied from the Gothic or black letter characters in which Bibles, psalters, and missals were then written.
Most of these books are Psalters, or Gospels, in Latin, while the remainder consist of missals and other religious compilations, and of them all the Book of Kells is the most famous.
He had destroyed the altars and burned the missals to show his contempt for the Mass, and his firm resolve to uproot the religious beliefs of the English people.
The Catholic party were filled with new hope; in Oxford and throughout the country the old missals and vestments that had been hidden away were brought forth again, and the offices and Mass were sung as they had been for centuries.
The only other things are a few old missals and little Catholic pictures, which the Ogilvies kept, I suppose, from the Middle Ages--their family pride being stronger than their Puritanism.
And, mad as it sounds, because the halos and the name of God in the old missals were of real gold; these also were taken away.
Mr. Douce's large library contained a number of Missals and Livres d'Heures.
For his Missals and Breviaries as for his Horae Plantin sometimes used woodcuts, sometimes copperplates.
Schreiber with being the first printer to insert in his Missals the woodcut of the Crucifixion, which thenceforth is so frequently found facing the first page of the Canon.
The "Ad te levavi" cut reappears in many of the later Missals of Du Pre, and subsequently of Wolfgang Hopyl.
Early in the sixteenth century Wolfgang Hopyl printed some magnificent Sarum Missals and also an Antiphoner and Legenda, besides some very fine editions of Lyndewood's Constitutions.
After about 1503 the French Horae decline rapidly in beauty and interest, but many fine missals were issued by Wolfgang Hopyl and other firms, some with one or more striking pictures, almost all with admirable capitals.
Hither, in 1505, had come a Franconian artist, Lucas Cranach, who had already illustrated some missals for Winterburger of Vienna.
His main business was the production of missals and other service books, in some of which he made experiments in colour-printing.
Erhard Ratdolt had made some experiments in colour-printing in the astronomical books which he printed at Venice, and at Augsburg completed the crucifixion cut in some of his missals partly by printed colours, partly by hand.
Missals do not often occur, and are not only very valuable but very difficult to collate, unless furnished with catch-words or signatures.
In the blue backgrounds of the missals the projection is often wildly extravagant; for instance, the MS.
This bolder quaintness of the missals is very slightly modified in religious paintings of the period.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "missals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
