A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 105
m ** / a. Fig. 70,—Monumental brass : head of a bishop, Flemish, fourteenth century. The second class is much the most numerous, and to it the varioussmall examples in the Museum collection belong. Palimpsestsdue to mistakes on the part of the workmen, or to the dissatis- 76 GLOSSARY faction of the… … Fig. 71.—Palimpsest brass : Thomas Quythed,about 1460, and pair of compasses, seventeenthcentury. hand, in palimpsests which result from the re-use of much earliermonuments, the later surface is rarely earlier than the second halfof the sixteenth century and frequently much later. A great dealof…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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