Two illustrations from a illustrated manuscript of the Ladder of St. John Climacus, eight illustrations from the Gospels, and two painted wooden covers from the Gospels. Colored plates, and copious in-line black-and-white drawing of comparison pieces. The minatures are Byzantine twelfth-century work; the covers are Coptic, about 725. Professor Morey's unsparing discussion of the decadence of the Coptic style from the naturalism of the Greeks has a period charm.