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Set LXV.—continued.
12. Menche. Stone lintel showing a worshipper before
a deity.
13. „ Stone slab from house M.
14. Chichen Itza. Building ornamented with masks of
the Rain-God.
15. „ „ Stone serpent-column, from a Tem¬
ple of the Toltec period.
Set LXVI. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH HISTORY.
Anglo-Saxon Period.
1. Typical iron weapons of the Anglo-Saxon and
Viking periods.
2. Silver and bronze-gilt brooches, some set with
garnets. Anglo-Saxon, about a.d. 500-650.
3. Gold buckle and pairs of clasps, with bronze
vessel, found in a grave-mound, Taplow, Bucks.
Early Seventh Century.
4. The Franks Casket of whale’s bone, showing the
front, panel of lid, and right side. Anglian
work, about a.d. 700.
5. The Lindisfarne Gospels. The four Gospels in the
Latin Vulgate version, written about a.d. 690-
700.
6. Bede. History of England by the “ Venerable ”
Bede (a.d. 673-735).
7. Coins of Anglo-Saxon Kings.
8. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Earliest History of
this country in English.
9. Royal Anglo-Saxon Finger-Rings of Ethelwulf
and Ethelswith.
10. Silver Chalice and a Scourge of silver wire.
11. Beowulf. Epic poem in Anglo-Saxon.
12. The Four Gospels, in English, of the Anglo-Saxon
or Wessex version.
13. Grant by Cnut, king of the English, to ^Elfstan,
Archbishop of Canterbury.
14. Register and Martyrology of New Minster, after¬
wards Hyde Abbey, Winchester.
15. Head of an ivory pastoral staff. Anglo-Saxon,
about 1020.
Set LXVII. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH HISTORY.
Fourteenth Century.
1. Silver-gilt casket in the form of a building with
high-pitched roof.
2. Queen Mary’s Psalter. Early 14th century.