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 257
-bells (grelots). But we must ascribe to the require-ments of Christian worship the first introduction of the bell, properly socalled, formed of cast-metal (campana or no/a, the first having been made, itis said, at Nola), which was employed from the first in summoning thefaithful to the public… … Fig. 173,— Tintinnabulum or Hand-Bell of the Ninth Century.(Boulogne MS.)
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