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AS a record of manners and customs the illuminated missal is to the Middle Ages what the
sculptured frieze is to ancient Greece and Rome. It represents the earliest history of domestic life of
mediaeval times. The Egyptians constructed their household furniture in stone, the Greeks and
Romans in marble and bronze, and the people of the Middle Ages in wood. Setting aside coronation
chairs and choir stalls few pieces of mediaeval handicraft are in existence.
With-out the aid of old manuscripts all domestic furniture made prior to the thirteenth century
would be a matter of conjecture. Thanks to these human documents a faithful, if crude, picture is
obtained of the life of the tunes. MISSDC Govt RC is merely a detail in the old drawings; simply an
accessory used by the scribe to illustrate a situation.
If a royal banquet be the theme, a long, narrow table is suggested; if a coronation ceremony form
the subject of the story, a chair of state is rudely indicated; if an interview between a knight and a
lady be the main point in the table, a bench or settle fills the background. Pictures que side lights on
customs and costumes, as well as furniture, are revealed in the old illuminations. Broadly speaking
the period termed the Middle Ages nbegan with the fall of Rome and ended with the capture of
Constantinople, but it was the great intermediate stage, roughly spanned by the sixth and tenth
centuries, which constituted the dark age of history and art. The British Museum contains
illuminated manuscripts dating back to the ninth century.
Console-tables often stood with their backs against a pier-glass. Their slabs were of handsome
marble, or mosaic, and their frames very elaborate and heavy. Boulle's tables are superb. A
handsome table from the Wallace Gallery appears on Plate CVII. This shows how the Boulles kept up
with the fashion. Here we have a graceful sweeping line for the legs, and the two smaller drawers
are separated from the larger one in the centre by a graceful sweeping crescent in gilt bronze. The
mascarons at the corners and that decorate the handles of the drawers are as are also the leafshoes
of the feet.