. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . inboth ; both have the same chain shirt, hanging down under the taces,and seen between the tuilles (a little more of it being perceived in thefigure of Warwick than in the other, in consequence, only, of that figurehaving been drawn from a lower point of view); and, besides the leg-armour, both have plates of the same shape, defending the joint of theknee, on the outside.
. An inquiry concerning the invention of printing : in which the systems of Meerman, Heinecken, Santander, and Koning are reviewed : including also notices of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, the block-books, etc. . inboth ; both have the same chain shirt, hanging down under the taces,and seen between the tuilles (a little more of it being perceived in thefigure of Warwick than in the other, in consequence, only, of that figurehaving been drawn from a lower point of view); and, besides the leg-armour, both have plates of the same shape, defending the joint of theknee, on the outside. David has a spear, with a small pennon attachedto it near its point. The reader will find a similar specimen, takenfrom our Dutch manuscript before mentioned of c. 1390, at Plate 23. The kneeling figure, in the group on the right, has a pointedbascinet, with large circular oreillettes and the mentoniere, the squarebreast-plate, with taces and the tuilles; and, lastly, large circularplates covering the top and front of the shoulders, of which variousother instances occur in the Speculum, and in the Biblia Pauperum,and which are indeed very common in illuminations, from the begin- Cosl cs rne of ih» : , mh> US ZvII. the urn.
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