The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 62
liese J[. J)idroii givcstho followiiig descripliou :— Tlioy werc flrst forniod of two openworkBi)lioroids, iu cast and cliased copper, ornamented with ligures of animaisand inscriptions. Originally they were suspended by tliree cliains, which,according to tradition, signifîed the union of the body,… … Fig. 21.—An Altjr-Tray and Chalîce, in enamelled gold, supposed to be of the Fourth or Fifth Century, foundat Gourdon, near Chalon-sur-Saône, in 1846. (Cabinet des Antiques, Bibl. Imp. de Paris.) From tbe first, tbe ligbting of cburebes was, to a certain extent, carriedeut on mucb tbe same…
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