The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 224
èse two inventions, little use was madeof thora during the eleventb, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. The water-clock and liour-glass (Fig. 144) continued exclusively in use. Some wereornamcntcd and engraved ^^-ith mucb taste ; and they contributed to the IfOROJ.UCV. 73 décoration of apnrtments,… … Fig-. 1^4.—An Hour-glass of thc Sixteenth Centur}-,—Frencli Work. of the t^yelfth century. The first mention of it is found in the Usages de1 Ordre de Cîteaux, compiled about 1120. It is there prescribed to thesacristan so to regulate the clock, that it sounds and awakens him beforematms ; in…
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