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 258
still often used for dates on buildings OSMUNDS 217 and on the title-pages of books. Fig. 159 shows some earliervariants of the figures 2, 4, 5, and 7, the remaining figures differ-ing little from their present forms. All these variants are olderthan the year a. d. 1310, except the last three… … Fig. 160.—Nutcrackers (to right and left). In the middle, iron thumbikins. day. The last 7 shows how the old figure became the new bybeing turned on its side ; the last 2 illustrates a step in theevolution of that figure towards that now in use. NUT-CRACKERS. These were used in the Middle Ages in a…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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