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Flambard's Crosier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

T. D. Kendrick
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The Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral very kindly gave me permission to exhibit Flambard's crosier to the Society after it had been cleaned and repaired in the Laboratory of the British Museum during the latter part of 1937, and I am further indebted to them for allowing me to print the notes that I prepared for the evening of its exhibition. I must also record my gratefulness to them for sending Flambard's ring to London in order that the Society might have the pleasure of inspecting both these famous relics of the celebrated bishop.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1938 , pp. 236 - 242
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1938

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References

page 236 note 1 Archaeologia, xlv (1879), 385Google Scholar.

page 236 note 2 Willis, Browne, Survey of Cathedrals, i, London, 1742, pl. opp. p. 221Google Scholar.

page 237 note 1 Mr. Herbert Maryon tells me that the head is probably a composite structure and was wrought in separate pieces.

page 238 note 1 Cf. Paulsen, Peter, Mannus, 29 Jahrg. (1937), p. 410Google Scholar.

page 238 note 2 Antiquaries Journal, xv (1935), 25Google Scholar. Dr. Shetelig's paper does not record that these mounts probably, though not certainly, are part of the treasure of English eleventh-century coins with which they are exhibited.

page 239 note 1 There is no doubt that the black-filled loop in the drawing was originally filled with niello, though most of this has now disappeared. The matter was carefully tested in the British Museum Laboratory.

page 240 note 1 For a contemporary lead mortuary crosier of a Norman bishop see Cahier-Martin, Mélanges, iv, 217, fig. 87. I know of only one instance of the use of iron for a mortuary crosier, a simple Gothic crook of the fourteenth century from Hastière (Namur Museum).

page 240 note 2 See Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Rings, by C. C. Oman, p. 30, footnote 4.

page 241 note 1 H. Leclercq in Cabrol, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, col. 2183; Smith and Cheetham, Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, col. 1805.

page 241 note 2 Leclercq, op. cit., col. 2185.

page 242 note 1 Old Furniture, October 1927, p. 59.