A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 305
of very great interest, which are chiefly exhibited in a frame s 258 GLOSSARY on the wall by Case 4. They include figured silks from therobe and mitre-shaped head-dress of the Emperor Henry YI(d. 1197), discovered when his sarcophagus in the Cathedral ofPalermo was opened towards the close of the… … Fig. 181.—Panel of English needlework (Opus Anglicanum), about 1300. 1316-1337. In the design upon the garments of the Emperorwe clearly see the oriental influence which affected the earliestproducts of the loom in Mediaeval Europe, especially in Sicily,where Saracenic art was highly developed and…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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