... A Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament Room

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Strana 61 - Here is one who, after corruption, which marked the close of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Thomas a Kempis, born in 1379, died at the age of ninety-two; Gerson, born in 1363, died at the age of sixty-one. They were thus contemporaries for forty-five years of their lives. But the destinies of the two men were utterly different.
Strana 250 - ... the last quarter of the sixteenth, and the first quarter of the seventeenth century; and which, though commonly called the age of Elizabeth, comprehends many writers belonging to the reign of her successor.
Strana 76 - ... programme of the old Society) has been successfully accomplished, and forms the piece de resistance in the first year's work of the new London Topographical Society. The original, of which this reproduction is an exact facsimile, the best and most perfect example of the map known to be in existence, is in the library of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House. The application made by your Committee to the Council of that Society for permission to reproduce the map was readily acceded to,...
Strana 66 - Equator, the meridian line, the line of intersection of the Equinoctial with the plane of the horizon...
Strana 147 - Griffin, the legendary animal in Greek mythology with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion. The saxophonist's physical description is similarly anomalous, for he resembles a Sicilian, he is about forty and is large, "wild" (divoky), "hulking
Strana 64 - Astrolabe is .an instrument chiefly used for taking the altitude of the sun or stars at sea.
Strana 8 - The jug now stands in the medieval section of the British Museum as one of the finest examples of English craftsmanship at that time. It bears the arms of England and the badge of Richard II, and is inscribed with the following proverbs: He that will not spare when he may he shall not spend when he would. Deem the best in every doubt till the truth be tried out.
Strana 94 - But in the conditions of extending business which were current in the latter part of the sixteenth, and the first half of the seventeenth, century...
Strana 268 - Troy, the ounce twenty pennies sterling, the penny sterling 32 grains of dry wheat taken from the midst of the ear ' according to the old laws of this land '. This ratio of 32 grains to the penny had been established from Saxon times, the 32 wheat-grains being equivalent to 24 barleycorns, which are the grains of Troy measure and had been used as a unit instead of wheat-grains in parts of the Roman Empire.
Strana 234 - These it has undeniably used from 1478, in the form of a succession of alphabets, each consisting of twenty letters ; J, U or V, W, X, Y and Z, being the letters omitted. From 1560-1 they have, with hardly any exception, been enclosed in regular heraldic shields of various shapes, but till then the letters are surrounded with a line more or less closely following their own outline ; the ends of the punches having been originally of the shape of...

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