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 122
pp. 27 and 152. COMPASS, MARINERS. The compass, invented by the Chinese and by them transmittedto the Arabs, was introduced into Western Europe at the time ofthe Crusades. It was a frequent adjunct to dials between thesixteenth and eighteenth centuries (Dials in Table-Case K). COMMUNION CUPS. See… … Plate VII. Clock made for the Emperor Kudolph II about 1580. [See p. £5 COSTUME 91 a few important stages of development in dress, as many of theobjects in the cases have upon them figures wearing contemporarycostume. Two points may be noted by way of preface: the first,that apostles and sacred…
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