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 269
hange originated in thiscountry. Paxes of ear-lier date than the four-teenth century are rare ;by the fifteenth centurythey were universal, and,especially in Italy, hadbecome veritable worksof art, with enamelledor nielloed pictures andfinely chased frames(Wall-Cases 31 and 32and figs. 99 and… … Fig. 1G3.—Venetian enamelled pax,sixteenth century. kisse the pax or ben encensed, or gon to offring before hisneighbour. PENNERS OR PEN-CASES. Scribes, clerks, and others were in the habit of carrying theirink-bottle and case with pens, erasing knife, and other accessoriesattached by cords to…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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