Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall · leaf 143
FURNITURE. 131 in the Vatican ; and the “ pilentum,” or covered carriage, from the column of Theodosius. We know but little of the period succeeding the destruction ol Rome and the extinction of classic customs. In the middle ages we find carts, like those now in use for agricultural purposes in… … of wheels of large dimensions, drawn by a string of horses. The woodcut of a family carriage is from the well-known Luttrell psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the early fourteenth century. Such vehicles seem to have been clumsy enough and had no springs : nevertheless they were much ornamented…
Furniture · Woodwork
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