English: Hornbooks were an early primer for children.
Deutsch: Buchstabentafeln waren eine frühe Lernhilfe für Kinder.
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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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Sketch of a wooden battledore
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Sketch of a wooden battledore with pictures
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Two hornbooks in the form of a cross
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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
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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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Jan Steen: Fragment of The Village School (c. 1670)
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Song by Thomas Morley (1608)
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Illustration from Gregor Reisch's Margarita Philosophica
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Bartolommeo Schidone: Le premier des devoirs