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Battledores

Scope note

Primers of cardboard or wood, consisting of two or three pages with the alphabet, numbers, simple text, and sometimes pictures printed or impressed upon them and often varnished for protection. Distinguish from their predecessors, "hornbooks", which are primers consisting typically of a sheet of parchment or layer of paper mounted on a thin wooden board and protected by a sheet of transparent horn.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000254399

Broader Terms used

primers (books)

Term used for

battledore-books

Equivalent Terms used

battledore

Created

13yrs ago

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