OVER the past three decades a number of important manu- scripts and fragments with miniatures by Simon Bening (1483-1561), the last major figure in the history of Flemish illumination, have come to light. To these may now be added a fragmentary Book of Hours in the collection of the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel Castle, Sussex. Because it has been noted only in the private catalogues of the collection of the Dukes of Norfolk, scholars have hitherto been unaware of the book's existence.

THE recent exhibition of the work of Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh and London provided the opportunity for a detailed review of the picture frames associated with the artist's portraits. Of the sixty-five paintings in the show, perhaps twenty were in their original frames and another fifteen in frames of the period. It is possible to group the frames into a number of distinctive types and to associate at least one of these (Fig.50), a variation on French rococo frames, with Ramsay himself, at least to the extent of suggesting that it was his preferred style when sending portraits out ready framed. It is also possible to identify Isaac Gosset as the framemaker most closely associated with the artist.