LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ACH Anna Carson Hulbert

AIC   American Institute for Conservation

AKH   Avril Kay Henry

ATD   Art Teachers’ Diploma

BAA   British Archaeological Association

BM   British Museum

d   pence [Note: English currency until 1970 was in pounds (£, still used), shillings (s) and pence (d): 12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound (£, the sign still in use). Shillings and pence were sometimes written with a stroke between the two, e.g. “3/6” meant three shillings and sixpence.]

NDD   National Diploma in Design

NMR   National Monuments Record

n.p.   no publisher named in book

ns   New Series

s   shillings (but e.g. 2/9d = “two shilling and ninepence”)

sig.   signature (i.e. a Biblia Pauperum blockbook page reference)

SPCK   Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge

TS   Typescript

UKIC   United Kingdom Institute for Conservation

UP   University Press

  (following a letter representing a pier: signifies northern or eastern item of a pair of carvings)

+   marks a colour identification confirmed by analysis of samples

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