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The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church

Title:
The Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church
Author:
Gameson, R.
Location:
Oxford
Notes:
  • CCCC MS 2 On artists working across several media, p. 123 n. 4
  • CCCC MS 23 Anathema and inscription underline CCCC MS 23’s high status; spaces left for decoration suggest particular attitude to existing images; same artist as Bodleian MS Junius 11; on importance of inscriptions, pp. 8, 10, 37, 93, 186 n. 168, 194
  • CCCC MS 41 On the lack of a consistent program in supplying the decorated initials; on a rare historiated initial Eth (p. 410); on initials suggesting an interest in variety, pp. 225-6, 228 n. 214, 230
  • CCCC MS 183 Has one of the earliest pictorial frontispieces in an English book; on the meaning of the frontispiece; on ’tree scrolls’ in Anglo-Saxon art; on architectural settings; on acanthus panelling; on birds in foliage motif; argues Æthelstan shown reading to St Cuthbert, pp. 20, 25, 58-9, 119, 152-3, 180, 183, 184, 200, 251, 255, 256
  • CCCC MS 285 One of the undecorated copies of Aldhelm’s verse De uirginitate, p. 221 n. 167
  • CCCC MS 286 On evangelist portraits; scheme of scenes in panels not influential in Anglo-Saxon England; on the arch-shaped frame in Anglo-Saxon art, pp. 71-2, 110, 178 n. 135, 183, 197, 217 n. 152
  • CCCC MS 326 One of the decorated Aldhelm manuscripts associated with Christ Church Canterbury, pp. 221 nn. 169 & 172, 222 nn. 179 & 181
  • CCCC MS 389 On architectural settings in Anglo-Saxon art, p. 185
  • CCCC MS 391 On the motif of a beast-head spewing foliage, p. 122 n. 24
  • CCCC MS 411 Contains faithful imitation of Franco-Saxon frames, p. 198
  • CCCC MS 419 The frontispiece of CCCC MS 421 was originally in this manuscript, p. 91 n. 110
  • CCCC MS 421 On ’passive inscriptions’ such as that labelling John in the crucifixion miniature; on the size of Christ in the same miniature, pp. 91, 174  
  • CCCC MS 422 On the models underlying CCCC MS 422’s crucifixion miniature, pp. 33 n. 120, 232-3, 243
Reference Type:
Book
Manuscript:
bp151fr4113

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