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 252
the public ways, were in the habit of using either long-trumpets, called à potence, on account of the forked stick whereon they weresupported, or trumpets à tortilles (serpentine), the name of which sufficientlyindicates their shape. Added to this, the sound of the trumpet or hornaccompanied or… … Fig. 165.—Shepherds Horn. Eighth Century. Fig. 166—Horn, or Olifant, Fourteenth Century. (MS., British Museum.) (From WMemins French Monuments.) announced the opening and closing of the gates, the opening and closingof the markets, and the time of curfew, till the time when the horn andthe copper…
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