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 96
works, wherethe poet describes the instrument for the benefit of his little son. The astrolabes with historical associations exhibited in Table-Case A deserve attention : one, made by Humfrey Cole, in 1574,belonged to Henry, Prince of Wales. Those who are inter-ested in these instruments should not… … Plate V. English Astrolabe, about 1260. [See p. 67. 69 BADGES AND SIGNS. The badge is a device distinct from a crest, and having nonecessary connexion either with the helm or shield. An indi-vidual or family might have more than one badge, but one ofthese was usually a well-known device worn by…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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