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Lead alphabet primer, between 1600 and 1625.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 1112
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- Format:
- 3D object
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reading (Primary).
- Alphabets.
- Hornbooks--Specimens.
- Hornbooks.
- Genre:
- Hornbooks.
- Primers (books)
- Alphabets (symbols)
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Timeline Originals (Upminster, England), 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item ; 55 x 60 mm
- Place of Publication:
- between 1600 and 1625.
- Summary:
- Small cast lead alloy panel with molded design of the alphabet arranged on 5 lines with simple decorative divisions between lines. A small projection from the center of the bottom edge contains the initials WI. The upper left corner has been broken off and the lead was formerly bent and straightened in 2 places. The item was found in Beckingham, Nottinghamshire.
- Cited in:
- Recorded in the Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK), DENO-B5D251.
- OCLC:
- 915142249
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