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was looking at a vintage folding rule my partner has. it’s one of those beautifully crafted wooden, boxwood and brass tools. it’s by Hockley Abbey (John Rabone and Sons tools in Birmingham, UK). common thing as they were making 27,000 a week by 1945!
but it’s the #numerals that i’m taken by, look at the curls on the 2 and 3.
#typography #vintageTools #vernacular

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vintage folding brass and boxwood rule - showing two closed arms side by side, with the makers trademark and 6,8 on the top and upside down 15, 16 inch marks on the bottom

vintage folding brass and boxwood rule - showing two closed arms side by side, with 3,4,5 on the bottom and upside down 19,20,21 inch marks on the top

vintage folding brass and boxwood rule - showing two closed arms side by side, with the arm hinges and 5,7 upside down on the top and 17,19 inch marks on the bottom

vintage folding brass and boxwood rule - showing the main circular hinge and the number 23

Murray GM - Paperposts

@Paperposts@zirk.us · 6 months ago

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 7 months ago

Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader

“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots

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📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

Photograph by Duncan Cumming of the Barbour quotation in the Makars’ Court, Edinburgh.

A grey paving stone, engraved with the words

Fredome
is a noble thing

John Barbour
(c.1320–1395) — Photograph by Duncan Cumming of the Barbour quotation in the Makars’ Court, Edinburgh. A grey paving stone, engraved with the words Fredome is a noble thing John Barbour (c.1320–1395)

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 7 months ago

Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of the University of St Andrews,, & Steve Boardman of the University of Edinburgh – discuss ideas of chivalry & freedom in John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #chivalry

BBC

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Barbour's 'Brus'

How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 7 months ago

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–1395) describes the event

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/starn/poetry/the-brus/book-12/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Image description: “Bruce and de Bohun”, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. King Robert I, wearing chain mail, with a gold circlet around his helmet, and a flowing red-gold cloak and a surcoat bearing the Scottish lion rampant (red, on a yellow background) , stands up in the stirrups of the grey horse he is riding. He holds the reins tightly in his left hand and wields a battle-axe in his right. Sir Henry de Bohun, with golden plate armour and a flowing red cloth tied to his helm, rides past, his long lance missing the king. He is crouched low, almost seeming to bow, his head lined up for the blow from the king's axe. — Text is too long for ALT-text – however full text can be found via the link, lines 25 to 85. Image description: “Bruce and de Bohun”, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. King Robert I, wearing chain mail, with a gold circlet around his helmet, and a flowing red-gold cloak and a surcoat bearing the Scottish lion rampant (red, on a yellow background) , stands up in the stirrups of the grey horse he is riding. He holds the reins tightly in his left hand and wields a battle-axe in his right. Sir Henry de Bohun, with golden plate armour and a flowing red cloth tied to his helm, rides past, his long lance missing the king. He is crouched low, almost seeming to bow, his head lined up for the blow from the king's axe.

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 7 months ago

Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader

“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots

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📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 7 months ago

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/starn/poetry/the-brus/book-12/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage