. The Archaeological journal . reein the second of them is of a very conventional character ; the architec-tural details correspond well with the thiiteenth century. The rarity of caskets, either of wood or ivory, carved with such gro-tesques as are described above of this particular period, gives an unusualinterest to Mr. Hopkins box. At a later period (fourteenth to sixteenthcentury), scenes of chivalry and love were much more commonly adoptedfor caskets. One such casket, preserved in the church of St. Ursula atCologne, serves as the depository of the bones of the foot of that saintedfemale
. The Archaeological journal . reein the second of them is of a very conventional character ; the architec-tural details correspond well with the thiiteenth century. The rarity of caskets, either of wood or ivory, carved with such gro-tesques as are described above of this particular period, gives an unusualinterest to Mr. Hopkins box. At a later period (fourteenth to sixteenthcentury), scenes of chivalry and love were much more commonly adoptedfor caskets. One such casket, preserved in the church of St. Ursula atCologne, serves as the depository of the bones of the foot of that saintedfemale ! The small casket of the twelfth century, preserved in the RoyalMuseum of Copenhagen, is the only box which can be compared with theone described above. It is described in my Catalogue of Fictile Ivories,p. 243, No. 678. In the Bestiaria this beast is said to subject from the splendid Ashnioleaniiave been a tiger. Dibdin (Bibl. De- Be.^tiorium now traus[)orted to the Bod-cameron, 1. Ixxxviii.) has engraved this leiau
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