The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 251
lsh herdsmen and those of the landes of Cornouaille always carriedwith them (Fig. 165.) When the barons or knights desired to convey anysignals rendered necessary either in war or hunting, they were in the habitof using horns of a much more portable character, which were suspended attheir girdles ;… … Fig. 163.—Straight Trumpet with Stand. Fig. 164.—Curved Trumpet. (Eleventh Century. Cotton MS., British Museum.) (Eleventh Century. Cotton MS., British Museum.) in ivory, they took the name of olifant, an appellation destined to becomefamous in the old romances of chivalry, in which the olifant…
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