Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . XX\[ CIIAXDELIEU, IX THE V. AXD A. MUSEUM <^ ^-^. li,\lK XW II CHAPTER XX CROSIERS There are a large number of these very beautiful insignia ofoffice to be found in our museums ; and although we aregrateful to those who have given us the opportunity of studyingthese lovely examples of medieval art, we cannot but rememberthat they have only been obtained by the desecration of France, at least, it was the custom to bury a deceased prelatein all his ecclesiastical robes and garniture, they
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . XX\[ CIIAXDELIEU, IX THE V. AXD A. MUSEUM <^ ^-^. li,\lK XW II CHAPTER XX CROSIERS There are a large number of these very beautiful insignia ofoffice to be found in our museums ; and although we aregrateful to those who have given us the opportunity of studyingthese lovely examples of medieval art, we cannot but rememberthat they have only been obtained by the desecration of France, at least, it was the custom to bury a deceased prelatein all his ecclesiastical robes and garniture, they being entirelypersonal to himself; and it is somewhat painful to read, in thedescriptions given in French museum catalogues of many ofthese objects, that the authorities were indebted to Monsieurthe government architect in charge of the restoration of acathedral, for having had opened the grave of such and such abishop, and obtaining the staff and ring which he had depositedin the Louvre or the Hotel Cluny. But we can say nothing,however, in this country, for S. Cuthberts coffin no longerencloses his bones but it has to be looked for in the
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