The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . enturyin the .British Museum (Sloane 3983,fol. 43 and 13) on astronomy. Form-ing an obtuse angle with the handleof the bow is a contrivance shapedJ like a spear-head; which presumablyby permission served Some usefid^ purpose; if ithad notches (which would be tooFig. li^Earliest Bow of gjnall to show in the drawing), .andluh ceXiir the hair of the bow was finished with a loop, then we haye here an earlyexample of a device for; controlling the tension. Anpther boW; inthe same MS; has two round knobs
The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . enturyin the .British Museum (Sloane 3983,fol. 43 and 13) on astronomy. Form-ing an obtuse angle with the handleof the bow is a contrivance shapedJ like a spear-head; which presumablyby permission served Some usefid^ purpose; if ithad notches (which would be tooFig. li^Earliest Bow of gjnall to show in the drawing), .andluh ceXiir the hair of the bow was finished with a loop, then we haye here an earlyexample of a device for; controlling the tension. Anpther boW; inthe same MS; has two round knobs on;the stiqkwhich may beassumed to haye served the same purpose. - ;. A very early example of the cremaillbre haw (fig. i) occurs ona carved ivory plate ornamenting the binding of the .fine Caro-lingian MS. Psalter of Lothair ( 825)1 for some time,knownas the EUis and White Psalter, but now in: the library of SirThomas Brooke at Armitage Bridge H^use. The carved figureof King David, assigned from its characteristic pose and thetreatment of the drapery to the nth century, hplds a stringed. Drawn from thethe Lathair PsaUer^of Sir Thomas Brooke. The artist has added a bow with cr&maillhre attachment, whichis startling if the carving beaccurately placed in the i ith earliest representation, of a crimpAllkre bow, with this ex-ception, dates from the isth century, according to Viollet-le-Duc,who merely, states that it was copied from a painting.^ Fetis{op. cit. p. 117) figures a crSmaillire bow which he styles Bassani,1680. Sebg,stian Virdung draws a bow fpr a tromba marina,With the hair and stick bound together with waxed cord. Thehair appears to be kept more or less tense by means of a wedgeof-wood or other material forced in between stickand hair,, the i latter bulging slightly at this point Uke the string ofan archerybow when the arrow is in position; this contrivance may bedue to the fancy of the artist. The invention of a rtibvable nut propelled by a screw is as
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