- Interior View of St. Robert’s Chapel
St. Robert’s Chapel, at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, is a very excellent example of a hermitage. It is hewn out of the rock, at the bottom of a cliff, in the corner of a sequestered dell. - A Town, from Barclay’s Shippe of Fools
The accompanying cut from Barclay’s “Shippe of Fools,” gives a view in the interior of a mediæval town. The lower story of the houses is of stone, the upper stories of timber, projecting. The lower stories have only small, apparently unglazed windows, while the living rooms with their oriels and glazed lattices are in the first floor. - Arms of Fifteenth Cetury
- An Inn
In the woodcut the side of the hostelry next to the spectator is supposed to be removed, so as to bring under view both the party of travellers approaching through the corn-fields, and the same travellers tucked into their truckle beds and fast asleep. The sign of the inn will be noticed projecting over the door, with a brush hung from it. Many houses displayed signs in the Middle Ages; the brush was the general sign of a house of public entertainment. On the bench in the common dormitory will be seen the staves and scrips of the travellers, who are pilgrims. - Baskerville
- B
B - Frame
Frame - Reclusorium, or Anchorhold, at Rettenden, Essex
In a reclusorium, or anchorhold, there was always a “cell” of a certain construction, to which all things else, parlours or chapels, apartments for servants and guests, yards and gardens, were accidental appendages. - The Frame
- The Lithographic Star Press
- Bulmer
- The Printing Press of the original construction
- Exterior View of St. Robert’s Chapel, Knaresborough
St. Robert’s Chapel, at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, is a very excellent example of a hermitage. It is hewn out of the rock, at the bottom of a cliff, in the corner of a sequestered dell. The exterior, a view of which is given below, presents us with a simply arched doorway at the bottom of the rough cliff, with an arched window on the left, and a little square opening between, which looks like the little square window of a recluse. Internally we find the cell sculptured into the fashion of a little chapel, with a groined ceiling, the groining shafts and ribs well enough designed, but rather rudely executed. - Thomas Curson Hansard
- Church of St. Vital, at Ravenna. Byzantine style
- Gutenberg
- Mr Bensley's Machine
- A Knight Templar
The order of the Knights of the Temple was founded at Jerusalem in 1118 a.d., during the interval between the first and second crusades, and in the reign of Baldwin I. Hugh de Payens, and eight other brave knights, in the presence of the king and his barons, and in the hands of the Patriarch, bound themselves into a fraternity which embraced the fundamental monastic vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity; and, in addition, as the special object of the fraternity, they undertook the task of escorting the companies of pilgrims from the coast up to Jerusalem, and thence on the usual tour to the Holy Places. - ‘Diabolus ligatus’
- The Spectroscope, an Instrument for Analysing Light
This pictorial diagram illustrates the principal of Spectrum Analysis, showing how sunlight is decomposed into its primary colours. What we call white light is composed of seven different colours. The diagram is relieved of all detail which would unduly obscure the simple process by which a ray of light is broken up by a prism into different wave-lengths. The spectrum rays have been greatly magnified. - ‘St. Piran’
- ... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape
- ‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
- ‘A wonderful sight’
- ‘Henry’s badge’
- Comparative size of molecules
An atom is the smallest particle of a chemical element. Two or more atoms come together to form a molecule: thus molecules form the mass of matter. A molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Molecules of different substances, therefore, are of different sizes according to the number and kind of the particular atoms of which they are composed. A starch molecule contains no less than 25,000 atoms. Molecules, of course, are invisible. The above diagram illustrates the comparative sizes of molecules. - Cuissard for the off hock
- Padded 'harnische-kappe' and helm showing the attachment of the cap, after Dürer
- ‘He incontinently fled’
- Inscription of the Sigean Tablet
- ‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
- A young novice of the priory
- View of Stereotype Foundry
- ‘... got his arms round a branch’
- ‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
- A ‘herauld’
- ‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
- ‘... cast her into a cauldron’
- ‘... playing innumerable pranks’
- The Printing Press of the Stanhope Construction
- ‘The tiger and the mirror’
- ‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
- ‘... led through the middle of the city’
- sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
- ‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
- ‘The young Edward III.’
- Sixteenth-century Suit of Plate
- Female Pilgrim
We have hitherto spoken of male pilgrims; but it must be borne in mind that women of all ranks were frequently to be found on pilgrimage; and all that has been said of the costume and habits of the one sex applies equally to the other. Here is a cut of a female pilgrim with scrip, staff, and hat. - '... crossed to England’'
- ‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’
- Koster
- Harnischmeister Albrecht, 1480
- Basin maker
- ‘... failed to identify the geese’
- ... sware ‘gret othes’ and took himself by the hair
- The Issue
The Issue de Table.--Fac-simile of a Woodcut in the Treatise of Christoforo di Messisburgo, "Banchetti compositioni di Vivende," 4to., Ferrara, 1549. At the issue de table wafers or some other light pastry were introduced, which were eaten with the hypocras wine. The boute-hors, which was served when the guests, after having washed their hands and said grace, had passed into the drawing-room, consisted of spices, different from those which had appeared at dessert, and intended specially to assist the digestion; and for this object they must have been much needed, considering that a repast lasted several hours. Whilst eating these spices they drank Grenache, Malmsey, or aromatic wines - The Workshop of Conrad Seusenhofer
- From Romance of Alexander, Bib. Nat., Paris, circ. 1240
- Pilgrims
- ‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’