[MR] eyeglasses / Re: Atlantia Digest, Vol 81, Issue 51

[jbrmm266 at aol.com]

Or perhaps this one?  This is the first one I think of when I hear of someone in a period painting wearing glasses.



http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/greco_el/14/1410grec.html



Your servant aye

Donal


-----Original Message-----
From: Smith CTR Jeffrey C <jeffrey.c.smith.ctr at usmc.mil>
To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 12:06 pm
Subject: Re: [MR] eyeglasses / Re: Atlantia Digest, Vol 81, Issue 51




 Was it this one?  http://blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com/tag/medieval-eyeglasses/
Barcsi Janos

----Original Message-----
rom: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] 
n Behalf Of Nancy Hulan
ent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:23
o: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
ubject: [MR] eyeglasses / Re: Atlantia Digest, Vol 81, Issue 51
> Now if I could only just relocate the picture I saw of an early pope 
 or cardinal seated next to a table holding a pair of bi-focals, I 
 would be very happy. Take that, Ben Franklin.
I haven't done any research into this area, but The Evolution of the Book (by 
rederick Kilgour, Oxford UP, 1998) places the development of eyeglasses for 
eading at the latter half of the 1280s. They became popular enough that a 
enetian guild of eyeglass makers was formed in 1320.
Best wishes,
neira
--
istress Gwerfyl verch Aneirin, known as Aneira Kingdom Chronicler, Atlantia A&S 
rojects: www.aneira.org ========================================================================
                  The Merry Rose Tavern at Cheapside
   List Info: http://merryrose.atlantia.sca.org/
 Submissions: Atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
ubscriptions: http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/listinfo.cgi/atlantia-atlantia.sca.org
=======================================================================
                  The Merry Rose Tavern at Cheapside
   List Info: http://merryrose.atlantia.sca.org/
 Submissions: Atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
ubscriptions: http://seahorse.atlantia.sca.org/listinfo.cgi/atlantia-atlantia.sca.org