COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL022772tr
Reference Number:
Book-covers 11
Image Title:
Enamel Plaque
Date Created:
13th century
Description:
Panel from a book-cover. The Crucifixion, between the Virgin and St John. All three figures are in relief and applied. The lower extremity of the panel is occupied by imbrications of blue and white and green and yellow, with red centres. The Cross, which is with no colour, has on its upper limb a Titulus Crucis (Title of the Cross) bearing IHS XPS and Dextra Domini, on each side of which is half-length figure of an angel holding a book; both angels are in relief and applied. All five figure have inlaid black enamel eyes. The Christ is crowned and his feet pierced with two separate nails, rest on a lapis blue suppedaneum with red dot decorations. His nimbus is of concentric circles of pale blue, white and lapis blue, the cross contained within is of metal, incised. The background of the panel is of deep blue enriched with rosettes and discs of various colours (red, blue and white, green and yellow) and with 3 horizontal bands of turquoise.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Technique Used:
Metalwork
Creation Site:
France: Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Limoges
Item Height:
270 mm
Item Width:
138 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Image Creation Technique:
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, October 2003
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Enamel Plaque
