One of the Magi (cross-gartered) – From an Illumination in the Benedictional of St. Ethelwald, in the Duke of Devonshire’s Collection
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Illustrator: Unknown
Engraver: Unknown
Original Illustration Size: 55 x 31 mm / 2″6 x 1″6
Illustration Number: 13a/22
Source Text: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere / Edited by Charles Knight / Comedies, Vol. II.
Published: London: Virtue & Co., [1839–42?]
Tray-trip – From a Drawing in Harleian MSS
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Illustrator: Unknown
Engraver: Unknown
Original Illustration Size: 61 x 31 mm / 2″12 x 2″24
Illustration Number: 13b/22
Source Text: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere / Edited by Charles Knight / Comedies, Vol. II.
Published: London: Virtue & Co., [1839–42?]
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold is now in the British Library, Add. MS. 49598. The illumination showing the Magi is on f. 24v: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_49598_fs001r. This is a previously unnoticed mention of this important manuscript. It seems that the engraving is probably copied from Gage’s illustrations of the manuscript in ‘Archaeologia’.