Hornbook

English: Hornbooks were an early primer for children.

Deutsch: Buchstabentafeln waren eine frühe Lernhilfe für Kinder.

Pictures

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  Reproductions of two hornbooks and a battledore
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  Paper sheet of a hornbook without the criss-cross by E. Raban (c. 1620)
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  A handwritten hornbook
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  Sketch of a wooden battledore
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  Sketch of a wooden battledore with pictures
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  A cardboard battledore
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  A silver hornbook
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  Two hornbooks in the form of a cross
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  An early leaden hornbook
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  A mould for German leaden hornbooks with an impression
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  A common form in continental Europe
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  Design for a hornbook by Hopfer
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  An early Mexican hornbook
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  A gingerbread hornbook mould with an impression

Art

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  Illustration on the title-page of Hornbye's Horn-book (1622)
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  A tablet with numerals, manuscript of Sacrobosco (c. 1400)
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  A hornbook with numerals, print by Hans Sebald Beham
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  “Miss Campion” (1661)
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  Jan Steen: Fragment of The Village School (c. 1670)
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  Adriaen van Ostade: The Schoolmaster (1662)
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  Song by Thomas Morley (1608)
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  Dürer's monogram
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  Illustration from Gregor Reisch's Margarita Philosophica
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  Bartolommeo Schidone: Le premier des devoirs