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VI.—Pictor in Carmine1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

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The treatise called Pictor in Carmine is notable as containing the largest known collection of types and antitypes intended to be used by artists. I have often called attention to it, and for many years have been on the look-out for its occurrence in manuscripts, in the hope that I might ultimately be able to produce an edition of the whole text. Whether that may yet see the light I do not know; it is a work of considerable bulk, and perhaps hardly merits a great expenditure of time and print, but comparatively few pages will suffice to give a conspectus of the contents and character of the book.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1951

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page 141 note 2 Now in the library of Mr. John Hely-Hutchinson, Chippenham Lodge, Ely, by whose kindness four of the pages are reproduced in pls. XXVI-XXVII. The Editor has also to thank Mr. Hely-Hutchinson for the loan ofthe manuscript.

page 141 note 3 Acephali, men with their faces in their chests,

page 141 note 4 Not traced: the Scholiast on Hesiod, Theog. 322, says the chimaera represents the three parts of oratory.

page 141 note 5 Boeth. Cons. Phil. 1. 4. The full proverb is:őνοѕ λúραѕ ἥκονε καì ûѕ σáλπιγγοѕ.

page 141 note 6 ‘nummos ut aiunt iocosos effundamus.’ Not traced.

page 145 note 1 Pers, . Sut. ii, 69:Google Scholar ‘Dicite, Pontifices, in sacro quid facit aurum?’ Quoted in § 31.

page 148 note 1 SeeNelson, , Ancient Painted Glass in England, p. 140Google Scholar.