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 292
with the portrait of Napoleon I wasgiven by him to the Hon.Mrs. Darner. SNUFFERS. Snuffers must have beenin regular use for the largeand thick-wicked candles ofthe Middle Ages. But mostof the old snuffers whichhave been preserved datefrom the seventeenth cen-tury and later, though thefine silver… … SOLLERETS. See p. 62. SPECTACLES. The spectacles which wereused in the Middle Ageswere not made of glass, butof pebble (rock crystal or1 beryl). They appear tohave been generally knownfrom the fourteenth cen-tury, when they were mounted somewhat in the manner of themodern folders, though without a…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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