Records thirty examples of medieval carved graffiti and a location ground plan.  Paperback.  12 pages. In good clean condition.  Cat No 5075

The author explores the purpose of scratch dials weighing up the evidence for, either mass dials (with a detachable gnomon) or sun dials (with a fixed gnomon).  He illustrates the variety of such dials found in Gloucestershire and follows this with a lengthy gazetteer of sites.

An academic treatise on the Medieval spiritual poem 'Dream of the Rood' dating from the English monastic movement of the C8th, a portion of whose heroic section is preserved in runes on the remarkable Ruthwell cross near Dumfries.

By the time the Gutenberg Bible appeared in Germany in 1456, printing had been known innthe East for five hundred years.  The Chinese and Koreans were able to make movable type and used it in connection to the finest calligraphy.