AN HOUR-GLASS. … Wj[ ANY notices of the use of hour-glasses duringthe sixteenth and part of the seventeenth cen-turies might be gathered from contemporarywriters. In the times of our forefathers, thepreachers were in the habit of measuring theirsermons by the hour; and the hour-glass wasa piece of furniture…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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![An illustration from Marsilii Ficini Florentini medici atq[ue] philosophi celeberrimi, de vita libri tres, recens iam à mendis sitúq[ue] uindicati : qvorvm primus, de studiosorum sanitate tuenda ; secundus, de vita producenda ; tertius, de vita coelitus comparanda ; apologia ; his accessit eiusdem epidemiarum antidotus, tutelae quoq[ue] bonae ualetudinis attinens ; cum omnium nouo rerum atque indice (1529)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-2236046R.nlm.nih.gov-293-10.webp)
