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 220
n many museums and old houses inEngland. The most familiar form of jug is the black jack, socalled either because it was made ofjacked leather, or because it more orless resembled a jack, or leatherncoat. The larger sizes of the blackjack (fig. 140) were known as bom-bards, because their great… … LETTERINGS-. The alphabets used upon medi-aeval monuments large and smallfollow the changes of the writtenalphabets, but often at a consider-able distance of time. Letters areusually divided into two mainclasses : (1) Majuscule, or large, sub-divided into capitals and uncials ; (2)Minuscule, or…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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