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 414 Hijlory of Domcjlic Manners There is a reprefentation of this fcene in the beautiful illuminated manu- fcript of the " Romance of the Role" in the Britilh Mufeum (MS. Had. No. 4425), in which, Angularly enough, the mirror itfelf, which is evidently of glafs, is reprefented as being convex, though perhaps we mufl attribute this appearance to the unlkilfuliiefs of the deligner, who in his attempt to Ihow that the mirror was round, failed in perfpe6tive. In our tirft cut, from Guillaume de Deguilleville, it will be obferved that the artill, in order to fliow that the articles intended to be reprefented are mirrors, and not plates, or any other round implements, has drawn the refledions of faces, although nobody is looking into them. Another pecu- liarity in the illumination of the " Ro- mance of the Rofe," a portion of which is reprefented in our cut No. 264, is that the mirror is fixed againfi: the wall, inftead of being held in the hand when ufed, as appears to have been more generally the cale. Standing-mirrors feem not to have been yet in ufe ; but before the end of the fifteenth century, glals mirrors, which appear to have been invented in Belgium or Germany, came into ufe. No. 264. Lady and Mirror.