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A Carved Ivory Fragment of the Twelfth Century Discovered at St. Albans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
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The conditions under which the beautiful carved ivory fragment illustrated on pl. I, fig. 1, was discovered may be given in the words of Mr. H. H. King, through whose friendly intervention it has been added to the collections in the British Museum. The discovery was made in 1920 on Mr. King's land by his gardener, in the spring following the filling in of the trenches which he describes, while fragments of tile and stone were being collected from the surface of the replaced soil to fill in a hollow place in a garden path.
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page 1 note 1 The credit for the discovery is shared by Mrs. King, who recognized the importance of the find as soon as the gardener handed it over to her.
page 3 note 1 13. D. vi. In support of an English, as opposed to a continental origin, we may cite two Canterbury MSS. in the British Museum with initials of this type: Claudius E. v, especially f. 4 b., and Harley 624, f. 103 b. A Rochester MS. of St. Augustine on the Psalms (5 D. 111, f. 1) affords another example, and it would be easy to extend the list.
page 4 note 1 Of the type of the Louvain bible of A.D. 1148, in the Museum (Add. 14, 788).
page 4 note 2 No. 372. 71. Victoria and Albeit Museum, Maskell, W., A description of the Ivories, &c., p. 135, Portfolio of Ivories, pl. xiii; Archaeologia, lviij, p. 408, fig. 1Google Scholar.
page 4 note 3 Vitry and Brière, Documents de sculpture française, plate vii, no. 1. Rachou, H., Cat. des coll. de sculpture et d'épigraphie du Musée de Toulouse, p. 189Google Scholar, no. 453, ascribes the relief, not to S. Sernin (as Vitry), but to the Prieuré de la Daurade. We may also notice plate xxxix, no. 2, a capital from the triforium of the choir in the cathedral at Laon dating in like manner from the latter part of the twelfth century.