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 222
an capitals were mingled with Gothicmajuscule and minuscule forms : by the middle of the sixteenthcentury the purer Roman capitals had been generally adopted,except in Germany. The numerals used for dates before the intro-duction of the Arabic figures, being seven letters of the Romanalphabet (I,… … Fig. 143.—Keys of the fourteenth century. fifteenth century : the reader will find a number of these explainedin works on monumental brasses and on seals. The commonestmethod was to draw a horizontal line above the letter before theomission, or to place a comma after it but above the line…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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