... A Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament RoomBritish Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography order of the Trustees, 1907 - 276 strán (strany) |
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... teenth century ( fig . 61 ) , one inlaid with ivory ; windlass for drawing a crossbow ; sword of the fourteenth century with in- scribed blade , found in the river Witham ( fig . 55 ) ; German hand- mortar of the sixteenth century ...
... teenth century ( fig . 61 ) , one inlaid with ivory ; windlass for drawing a crossbow ; sword of the fourteenth century with in- scribed blade , found in the river Witham ( fig . 55 ) ; German hand- mortar of the sixteenth century ...
Strana 9
... century ) , several smaller dishes or plates with subjects in relief made at Nuremberg about the time of Enderlein ... teenth century , and a crown worn by a bride in Norway ( seven- teenth century ) . On the back of the case a portrait ...
... century ) , several smaller dishes or plates with subjects in relief made at Nuremberg about the time of Enderlein ... teenth century , and a crown worn by a bride in Norway ( seven- teenth century ) . On the back of the case a portrait ...
Strana 10
... century , one by Thos . Tompion ( see p 88 ) . In the middle of the cases , clocks of the sixteenth and seventeenth ... teenth century ; water - clock by Finchett of Cheapside , 1735 . Above the case , lead cistern of the twelfth century ...
... century , one by Thos . Tompion ( see p 88 ) . In the middle of the cases , clocks of the sixteenth and seventeenth ... teenth century ; water - clock by Finchett of Cheapside , 1735 . Above the case , lead cistern of the twelfth century ...
Strana 14
... century ( fig . 11 ) . Right - hand divisions : German plaquettes , including examples by Peter Flötner , several in ... teenth century . Middle shelves : chef ( see p . 83 ) of the thirteenth century for the head of St. Eustace , from ...
... century ( fig . 11 ) . Right - hand divisions : German plaquettes , including examples by Peter Flötner , several in ... teenth century . Middle shelves : chef ( see p . 83 ) of the thirteenth century for the head of St. Eustace , from ...
Strana 15
... century ; large processional cross of wood covered with gilt - copper plates and enamelled plaques , German ... teenth century ; copper bowl with openwork foot ( fig . 95 ) , enamelled with busts of angels , and set with coloured pastes ...
... century ; large processional cross of wood covered with gilt - copper plates and enamelled plaques , German ... teenth century ; copper bowl with openwork foot ( fig . 95 ) , enamelled with busts of angels , and set with coloured pastes ...
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altar antique armour arms artists astrolabe Bishop bowl brass bronze brooches busts Byzantine cabochon cameo Carlovingian carved caskets Cathedral century fig chalice champlevé champlevé enamels Charles chiefly Christian Church ciborium clocks cloisonné collection colours crystal cuir-bouilli decorated designs dials diptychs earlier early eighteenth century eleventh century England English engraved Europe ewers examples fifteenth figures Flemish fourteenth century France Franks Bequest French gems German glass Gold Ornament Room grisaille Henry inscriptions intaglio Italian Italy ivory jewels King known later leather Limoges matrices medallions mediaeval mentioned metal metal-work Middle Ages Mosul mounted Museum niello objects painted panel pendants Penicaud period pewter plaques plate portrait probably relief reliquary Renaissance represented rings Roman sculpture seals seventeenth century silver sixteenth and seventeenth sixteenth century spoons stones style Table-Case Table-Case F teenth century thirteenth century Thomas à Becket translucent enamel twelfth century usually Waddesdon Waddesdon Bequest Wall-Case worn
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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...