heolor-bledu

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Hana Videen

heolor-bledu, f.n: the scale of a balance. (“HEH-oh-lor-BLAY-doo”)

Libra as a man holding balancing scales in a 13th-century Psalter. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS B.11.4, f. v recto. [trin-sites-pub.trin.cam.ac.uk]

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