Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 314
nvariable use of black letters and a shield used as anornament bearing a crown between three bells on an ermineground ; while the work of a founder at Bury-Saint-Edmunds is BELLS 207 always dedicated either to the Blessed Virgin or S. Edmund, andis marked by a shield bearing two arrows in saltire… … Fig. 66.—Bell, from S. Cuthbert, Chester-le-Street, Durham a little over a ton; but these bourdons, unlike the English bells,were not made to be swung, but to be struck by a hammer. InGermany there are several great bells of some antiquity, as thatof Erfurt, cast in 1497, and weighing nearly 14…
