Malmesbury Chasse, an ornate champelevé enamel casket produced in Limoges sometime between 1190 and 1200. Reputed to have housed the relics of the seventh-century Irish monk Máeldub (often anglicized as Maidulf), who established his monastic house in Malmesbury, the chasse found its way into the collection of the antiquarian Thomas Astle in 1774 from the book The Society of Antiquaries of London has taken care to publish, at its own expense, the ancient records which preserve the memory of British affairs Originally in Latin Vetusta monumenta, quae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam conservandam

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Malmesbury Chasse, an ornate champelevé enamel casket produced in Limoges sometime between 1190 and 1200. Reputed to have housed the relics of the seventh-century Irish monk Máeldub (often anglicized as Maidulf), who established his monastic house in Malmesbury, the chasse found its way into the collection of the antiquarian Thomas Astle in 1774 from the book The Society of Antiquaries of London has taken care to publish, at its own expense, the ancient records which preserve the memory of British affairs Originally in Latin Vetusta monumenta, quae ad rerum Britannicarum memoriam conservandam Societas Antiquariorum Londini sumptu suo edenda curavit Published 1789 by Londini [Society of Antiquaries]

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Location: England
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