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Detail View: Rylands Collection: Crucifixion panel

Image Number: 
JRL1315913
Reference Number: 
Book-covers 3
Image Title: 
Crucifixion panel
Alternative Image Title: 
Enamel panel
Date Created: 
13th century
Description: 
Panel from a book-cover. The Crucifixion, between the Virgin and St John.The lower extremity, from which the Cross rises, is occupied by imbrications of blue and white and green and yellow, with red centres. The Cross itself, which is ornamented with scroll-work, is green having on its upper limb a Titulus Crucis (Title of the Cross) bearing IHS XPS, on each side of which is half-length figure of an angel holding a book. On the lower limb, beneath the suppedaneum of lapis blue on which Jesus' feet rest, a smaller beardless figure is represented rising from a tomb of lapis blue and relief. The Christ is uncrowned; his nimbus is of concentric circles of metal, incised. The background of the panel is of lapis blue enriched with blue and white and green and yellow rosettes and discs; with two horizontal bands of turquoise in the lower half. The border (25 mm wide) comprises 15 small medallions of angels, on lavender ground, in incised metal with the heads applied and in relief; the medallions are separated by scroll-work on a lapis blue ground.
Subject: 
Bookbinding
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Bindings
Technique Used: 
Metalwork
Creation Site: 
France: Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Limoges
Item Height: 
265 mm
Item Width: 
175 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: 
Creative Commons License
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2013-08-05
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2018-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands