A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.

  • Edward Cutts
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1849
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Credit: A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    here the colouring of raised cross slabs also. In the famous history of Matthew Paris*, written and illuminated by him- self, c. A.D. 1260, at f. 213, is a representation of the entombment of an archbishop ; the lid, which is just being placed upon the coffin, has a cross and several of the round ornaments mentioned at p. 44 in relief; these are painted yellow, the stone itself being tinged green. In the very valuable collection of drawings of French monuments, called the Gagniéres collection, preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, there are drawings of two slabs, both from the Abbaye de St. Pere de Chartres. One has on the upper part of the stone a few lozenges coloured yellow, and in black letter characters (certainly not coeval with the stone) the imscription, abbas fulchenus. The lower part of the stone is divided into three compartments ; the centre one, much wider than the others, is divided into small lozenges alternately yellow and white (or the colour of the stone, i.e. lozengy or and “stone colour.) On each of the side compartments, upon a plain uncoloured ground, is a crozier in bas relief, coloured yellow, of the same shape as that on the slab of Radulfus of Chichester, Plate xxxvutt. They are laid upon the stone just as the two croziers are on the very interesting fragment of a raised cross slab at Margam, Glamorganshire, engraved in the Archeol. Cam- brensis, vol. iv. p. 38. The other slab has an inscription in Lombardic character round the margin; within this an ornamental border of a running pattern, of similar character to that on the slab at Ewenny, Plate xxxrx. All the slab within this border is divided into small lozenges, in which are, in alternate rows, roses, an ill-defined ornament, and lilies. Upon this diapered ground is a crozier, coloured yellow, of similar ® Matthei Parisiensis Historia, 14. c. h In the volume containing Beauvais, vii. Plut. xi. FY Brit.. Mus. Chartres, and Vendome.
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