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The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 220

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rtance of these two inventions, little use was madeof them during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. The water-clock and hour-glass (Fig. 144) continued exclusively in use. Some wereornamented and engraved with much taste ; and they contributed to the HOROLOGY 75 decoration of… … Fig. 144.—An Hour-glass of the Sixteenth Century,—French Worlv. of the twelfth century. The first mention of it is found in the Usages derOrdre de Citeaux, compiled about 1120. It is there prescribed to thesacristan so to regulate the clock, that it • sounds and awakens him beforematins ; in…

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