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26. Scales. Many patterns, some within a circle. British
Museum, 318c. Circa 1400.
27. Scales. British Museum, 318c.
28, 29. Anchors. Eleven varieties in account books, etc. —
Holland. British Museum, 318c. 1416-1463. See,
also, Nos. 21, 22, Plate II. Some have roses, fleurde-lis,
etc.
30. Serpent, with its tail in its mouth — emblem of eternity
—34. inches diameter.
British Museum, 15c ii.
31. Five-pointed star in circle. Five is a mystic number,
meaning the soul of the world. A star, the emblem of
a heavenly messenger, or teacher. The circle == the
world.
32. The ship or ark of the church. Cotton MSS. Nero vi.
108. 1529. British Museum, 318c vii. 1400.
Plate II.
1-3. Unicorns. Symbol of the church. One marked as if
for cipher. There are four other varieties, 1430, and
more 1460— all German. Ars Moriendi. 1440. Also in
Apocalypse, and in the Speculum, first edition, 1430-
1465.
4, 5. Unicorns. Drayton's Poems, three patterns. Brit. Mus.,
11,573. (Sotheby.) 1620.
6. Talbot or hound, symbol of hunting or experience. The
Oxford Book St. Jerome. (Sotheby.) " Printed date,"
1468.
7. Talbot, from a Dutch Bible, copy of the Aretin. The
paper of the Bodleian copy of the Aretin, " dated "
Oxford, 1479, exhibits no fewer than twenty- two different
paper-marks, nearly all of which occur in the
Dutch Bible of 1477. Brit. Mus., 318c. 1477.
8 A dog-headed figure merging into a horn or spire.
Anthony Bacon's correspondence. Tennison MSS.,
Lambeth Palace.
9-11. Bulls' heads. Brit. Mus., 318c. Circa 1470.