A Book about Bells (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Geo; S. Tyack

 
9780331309737: A Book about Bells (Classic Reprint)

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Chapter IV. The decoration OF Bums - Artistic mould ings on bells - Initial crosses and stops - Makers' marks - Figures of saints - Royal heads - Heraldic decoration Inscriptions - Invocations of saints - Jesus and Trinity bells - Prayers for donors, parishioners, and others Languages used for inscriptions - English inscriptions Insertion of dates and makers' names - Commemorations of donors - Makers' rhymed inscriptions - Boastful bells - Inscriptions allusive to change-ringing - Allusions to uses of bells - Records of parish authorities-loyal inscriptions - Commemoration of public events - Oi local events - Use of Scriptural quotations - A long inscription - Alphabetic inscriptions Leonine verses - Doggerel verses - Curious errors - Bell-frame inscriptions.

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