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The Society's Watercolours of Limerick's Mitre and Crozier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Peter Harbison
Affiliation:
5 St Damian's, Loughshinny, Skerries, Co Dublin, Ireland. E-mail: .

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present to the public for the first time the Society of Antiquaries’ original watercolours of Limerick's fifteenth-century mitre and crozier that served as the basis for engravings published in a paper by Dr Milner in the journal Archaeologia in 1814. These watercolours are still so wonderfully fresh that they convey something of the excitement and sparkle of the original medieval episcopal pontificalia, and they enable us to document their original state – and sadly note the subsequent losses and changes that occurred to the mitre and crozier during the nineteenth century.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2007

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