Ledger line (tombstone)
Tombstone of Bishop Hallum (d.1416), Constance Cathedral, showing gothic memorial text on a ledger line
A ledger line refers to the parallel lines incised or sculpted around the edge of the top surface of a mediaeval tombstone (or "ledger-stone"), laid on the floor of a church or on a chest tomb (or "altar-tomb"), within which lines is inscribed memorial text, generally in gothic script. Thus the phrase "Inscribed on a ledger line", commonly found in the writings of English antiquaries.[1]
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- ↑ See e.g. Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Antient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, p.76
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