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These are horn books, the reason they are called horn books is there is a thin layer of "cow horn" covering the text, this was to protect it from the children's hands from smudging the expensive paper.The frames were made out of different materials some were leather I will try to point them out.

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oltoot

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What was the text? Could some of them been early hymnals?

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PaulGasparo

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The text was usually the lords prayer which was taught to almost everyone, it could also be numbers or letters of the alphabet and sometimes vowels.

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