[Regia-NA] Wheelbarrow

[J. Kim Siddorn]

Thanks Carolyn - unfortunately, the TCD site seems to be down ;o((

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

"Spring in the air?"
"Spring in the air yerself !"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Priest-Dorman" <capriest@cs.vassar.edu>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: [Regia-NA] Wheelbarrow


> Kim wrote:
>
> >Wheelbarrow? Where, dear soul, I thought C14 too!
>
> The reference is Trinity College Dublin Ms. E.1.160, which the source
dates
> to the 13th century.  The black and white repro I saw, which is only a
> detail of the page, shows three guys on a construction jobsite.  Two are
> carrying stones or bricks in a flat carrier up a ramp while the third guy,
> on level ground beneath, pushes a small wheelbarrow with more bricks.  The
> barrow has a strap attached which the man is wearing around his neck.
>
> I don't know if the dating in this book is correct.  It's an older book,
> and presumably at least some of these mss. have been more securely dated
by
> now.  Next time I'm at the Vassar library I'll check some more current
> books and see what I can find on this ms.  If there's a date tweak to
> report, I'll do so here.
>
> Here's the source where I found it.
>
>          Hartley, Dorothy, and Elliot, Margaret M.  _Life and Work of the
> People of England:  A Pictorial Record from Contemporary Sources_, vol. 1,
> "The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries A.D. 1000-1300."  London:  B.T.
> Batsford, Ltd., [1931].  Plate 18c.
>
> There's lots of other interesting post-Regia stuff in here, including a
> 13th century harp player using a tuning tool of which you can see *both*
> ends, a 13th century screw press, and a wonderful little drawing of a
> cleric scarfing pasties out of a bowl.  (They're half-rounds, for all you
> cooks out there.)  The siege and construction depictions were also very
> interesting, with all their simple yet effective labor-saving machinery.
>
>
> Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
>   http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html
>
>
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