A Handbook to the Museum of Ornamental Art in the Art Treasures Exhibition
A Handbook to the Museum of Ornamental Art in the Art Treasures Exhibition
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Rising above them are the weapons of the 15th century, called ran- seurs and spetums, distinguished from the halbard by sharper 58 THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION.
points and side projecting ears, those of the spetum being curved. Beneath are two square targets of the same period, and a beauti- ful ivory saddle, engraved all over with love verses in old German, and the figures of the two personages whose sentiments they ex- press carved in high relief and in the costume of the time, recall- ing Ch...aucer's description, " His saddle was of whale's bone, " such being in the middle ages the ordinary name for ivory, which had become familiar to the Normans originally by the use made of the tusk of the walrus or sea-horse, acd whose descendants continued to apply to elephantine ivory the ancient term for all similar material. At the entrance ia also to be seen the morning star, a formidable weapon, used from the earliest times to the reign of Henry VIII. , and still carried by the watchmen in Nor- way ; and specimens of the two-handed sword, which seems to have been first used in England about the commencement of the 15th century, and remained in fashion, to the middle of the 16th.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Rising above them are the weapons of the 15th century, called ran- seurs and spetums, distinguished from the halbard by sharper 58 THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION.
points and side projecting ears, those of the spetum being curved. Beneath are two square targets of the same period, and a beauti- ful ivory saddle, engraved all over with love verses in old German, and the figures of the two personages whose sentiments they ex- press carved in high relief and in the costume of the time, recall- ing Ch...aucer's description, " His saddle was of whale's bone, " such being in the middle ages the ordinary name for ivory, which had become familiar to the Normans originally by the use made of the tusk of the walrus or sea-horse, acd whose descendants continued to apply to elephantine ivory the ancient term for all similar material. At the entrance ia also to be seen the morning star, a formidable weapon, used from the earliest times to the reign of Henry VIII. , and still carried by the watchmen in Nor- way ; and specimens of the two-handed sword, which seems to have been first used in England about the commencement of the 15th century, and remained in fashion, to the middle of the 16th.
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