The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 238
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. 73 decoration of… … Fig. 144.—An Hour-glass of the Sixteenth Century,—French Work. of the twelfth century. The first mention of it is found in the Usages delOrdre de Citeaux, compiled about 1120. It is there prescribed to thesacristan so to regulate the clock, that it sounds and awakens him beforematins ; in another…
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