Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Pirotechnia, del Vannuccio Biringuccio, nobile Senese, 1540, 1550,
1559, 1678. There is a French translation of it by Jasper Vincent,
1556--1572, 1627. The tenth chapter is about bells. Magius refers to it
in these words:--"In illa, perscriptum in Italico Sermone, et
delineatum quisque reperiet, quicquid ad artem ediscendam conducit,
usque adeo, ut et quo pacto, Campanæ in turribus constituantur ac
moveantur, edoceat, optimeque figuris delineatis commonstret."
Ducange in Glossario, in vocibus Æs, Campana, Codon, Cloca, Crotalum,
Glogga, Lebes, Nola, Petasus, Signum, Squilla, Tintinnabulum.
Mersenni (F. M.). Harmonicorum Libri XII. Paris, 1629, 1643. (Liber
Quartus de Campanis.) This and Biringuccio contain all the art and
mystery of bell-casting, &c. &c.
Puffendorff. De Campanarum Usu in obitu Parochiani publice
significando, in ejus Observationibus. Jur. Univers., p. iv. No. 104.
And now with regard to our English authors; their productions seem to be
confined chiefly to the _Art of Ringing_, as the following list will show:
Tintinalogia, or the Art of Ringing improved, by T. W[hite]. 18mo.,
1668. This is the book alluded to by Dr. Burney, in his _History of
Music_, vol. iv. p. 413.
Campanalogia, or the Art of Ringing improved. 18mo., 1677. This was by
_Fabian Steadman_.
Campanalogia, improved by I. D. and C. M., London scholars. 18mo.,
1702.
Ditto 2nd edition 18mo., 1705.
Ditto 3rd edition 18mo., 1733.
Ditto 4th edition 18mo., 1753.
Ditto 5th edition, by J. Monk. 18mo., 1766.
The School of Recreation, or Gentleman's Tutor in various Exercises,
one of which is _Ringing_. 1684.
Clavis Campanalogia, by Jones, Reeves, and Blackmore. 12mo., 1788.
Reprinted in 1796 and 1800?
The Ringer's True Guide, by S. Beaufoy. 12mo., 1804.
The Campanalogia, or Universal Instructor in the Art of Ringing, by
William Shipway. 12mo., 1816.
Elements of Campanalogia, by H. Hubbard. 12mo., 1845.
The Bell: its Origin, History, and Uses, by Rev. A. Gatty. 12mo., 1847.
Ditto, enlarged. 1848.
Blunt's Use and Abuse of Church Bells. 8vo., 1846.
Ellacombe's Practical Remarks on Belfries and Ringers. 8vo., 1850.
Ellacombe's Paper on Bells, with Illustrations, in the Report of
Bristol Architectural Society. 1850.
Croome's Few Words on Bells and Bell-ringing. 8vo., 1851.
Woolf's Address on the Science of Campanology. Tract. 1851.
Plain Hints to Bell-ringers. No. 47. of _Parochial Tracts_. 1852?
The Art of Change-ringing, by B. Thackrah. 12mo., 1852.
To these may be added, as single poetical productions,
The Legend of the Limerick Bell Founder, published in the _Dublin
University Mag._, Sept. 1847.
The Bell, by Schiller.
Perhaps some courteous reader of "N. & Q." may be able to correct any error
there may be in the list, or to add to it.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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