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Description: | An incomplete post medieval lead hornbook dating to the period c.AD 1500-1700. The object comprises c. 25% of a hornbook which when complete was circular in plan. It exhibits a border comprised of a circumferential moulded line with lines radiating from it to the edge. This decoration extends into the main body of the hornbook at the 12 and 9 o clock positions to form a grid. Placed centrally are a series of letters: dEF, and below these LMN. These form part of the alphabet, the rest of the which is missing due to worn breaks along the lower edge and one side edge. The letters are enclosed within a moulded border and the two rows are separated by a moulded transverse line. Above these letters is a cross pommee and two pellets which may form decoration which is now too worn to discern. The reverse is undecorated.Hornbooks proper were used as learning aids and were fairly large tablets printed with the text to be learnt - usually the Lord's Prayer or the alphabet. They were commonly made of wood onto which the printed paper would have been mounted, and then covered with a thin sheet of transparent horn for protection. Smaller, portable tablets of lead-alloy are generally thought to be mass produced versions of hornbooks proper and while still referred to as "hornbooks the term is, in these instances, slightly misleading.Michael Lewis suggests that mistakes and inconsistencies on lead-alloy examples would be ineffective as learning tools and may therefore have been made as toys for children in low-literacy families or perhaps even toys which mimic the hornbook proper and were "owned" by children's dolls.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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