The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 133
These last, which were chiefly employed as field carts, con-tinued in use even after pleasure-carriages had entirely disappeared. Thereremained, however, independent of mule-litters, the hasterna and carpentiim,state carriages of the Merovingian period, but only queens and ladies of highrank, who… … F& 73»—Cart drawn by Oxen, end of the Fifteenth Century. (Taken from the * Chroniques de Hainault, MS. in the Royal Library at Brussels.) one of Charlemagnes courtiers; but certainly not at the period of the lazykings, when, as Boileau has well said,— In Paris, four oxen, in pace soft and…
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