Book-illumination: Fac-similes from MS$. Illustration in Biblical and Liturgical MSS. down to the end of the Middle Ages.

DELILAH'S TREACHERY TO SAMSON.

From the Clermont-Tonnerre

Editor of

Bible: Hystorians,

written about 1370.

Specially engraved for the Ridpath Library.

The Ridpath Library

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