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Description: | Post-medieval toy hornbook made from lead, of 17th century date The lead tablet is near-complete; it is flat and rectangular with a short wide handle emerging from the centre of one of the shorter sides, which tapers slightly before ending in a circular terminal (diameter 16.2mm). The hornbook is however missing two of its rounded corner knops. It has a length of 88.7mm, a surviving width of 44.1mm, a thickness of 1.5-2.0mm and a weight of 27.2g. The front of the hornbook bears four rows of letters in relief comprising the alphabet. Each row is flanked and divided by a border of three horizontal lines crossed by many vertical lines to form a pattern of squares. The letters given are: X A b C d E F G H I K L M N O P q R S T V W ? Y Z Beneath the rectangular panel the handle appears to contain the letters: I (or L) B at the top, above the numbers 2 9. The circle at the base of the handle is decorated with a central pellet and two concentric circles, resembling a clock face. The circles are radially divided into eighteen sections. Compare LEIC-805386, LIN-16BF84, LVPL-69A2E4, etc. Full-size hornbooks were used as teaching aids, usually for the alphabet. The name comes from the construction; the full-size ones were wooden boards with lettering written on paper, covered by a sheet of transparent horn or mica for protection. Similar devices made in other materials take the same name, although it is possible that the much smaller lead-alloy examples may have been used as toys. They seem to date from the 17th century, perhaps being most common in the second half (Lewis 2012, 98-101).
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