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MBS Transactions

Transactions is published annually. It is fully illustrated and each issue consists of about 100 pages. The volume for each year is normally published in the autumn of the following year. As well as articles on brasses and incised slabs, it contains:

reports of conservation of brasses

portfolio of small plates

financial accounts for the past year.

Contents of recent issues of MBS Transactions

Vol XVI Part 3 1999

Vol XVI Part 2 1998

Vol XVI Part 1 1997

Vol XVII Part 2 2004

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Some back issues are available for sale. To enquire about availability contact

Janet Whitham on Aspiringchurchbooks@hotmail.com

or at 24 Kirkley Gardens

Lowestoft

Suffolk NR33 7LS

Phone 01502 567370

Contributions to Transactions

Articles for Transactions are welcomed from members and non-members alike. They should be sent to:

Hon. Editor

Nicholas Rogers M.A., M.Litt., F.S.A.

c/o The Muniment Room

Sidney Sussex College

Cambridge CB2 3HU

The Hon. Editor will be pleased to discuss proposed articles before drafts are considered.

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MBS Bulletin

The Bulletin is published 3 times a year, in January, May and September.

There are 20 A4 pages in each issue. It is fully illustrated and usually contains:

Cover of September 2010 Bulletin

Contributions to the Bulletin are welcomed from members and non-members alike. The deadlines are usually around the beginning of April, August and December.

Articles (ideally on disk) should be sent to:

The Editor

William Lack,

The Radleth,

Plealey,

Pontesbury,

Shropshire SY5 0XF

or email mbsbulletin@btinternet.com

Notes on books and articles should be sent to:

Richard Busby F.S.A.

Treetops,

Beech Hill,

Hexham,

Northumberland NE46 3AG

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County Series

In 1992 the MBS began the publication of the County Series, a series of fully-illustrated guides to the monumental brasses of the British Isles, by William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore. As well as dealing with all existing brasses from the medieval period to the present day, all indents are recorded and most illustrated and lost brasses recorded in antiquarian notes are comprehensively referenced. A volume is published annually, each dealing with the brasses of a specific county. All volumes are fully indexed, making it a valuable resource for family and local historians.

Cover of the Herefordshire volume

The volumes published to date are:

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Occasional Publications

The MBS produces occasional publications from time to time.

Past publications still available for sale are:

J. Coales (ed.), The Earliest English Brasses (1987)

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J. Bertram (ed.), Monumental Brasses as Art and History (1996, Alan Sutton Publishing Limited)

Cover of Monumental Brasses as Art and History, edited by Jerome Betram, published by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited and the Monumental Brass Society

J. Page-Phillips, Monumental Brasses: a Sixteenth Century Workshop (1999) with introduction by Jon Bayliss

Cover of MBS Occasional Paper No. 1. John Page-Phillips, Monumental Brasses: a Sixteenth Century Workshop

To celebrate the millennium in 2001, the MBS published a copiously illustrated volume edited by Robert Hutchinson, Drawings of Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs by the Waller Brothers 1837-44.

Cover of MBS Occasional Publication No. 2, edited by Robert Hutchinson, Drawings of Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs by the Waller Brothers 1837-44

This volume presents important new research, arising from an MBS Study Day, on the Catesby family, Ashby St. Ledgers church and brasses to family spanning the period 1404 to 1553. Most are now in imperfect condition, but details of lost components are recorded in hitherto unpublished 17th and 18th century antiquarian notes transcribed in full in the volume. Two brasses in the Northamptonshire Record Office are newly identified as having been from Ashby; as a result they are to be returned to the church. All known brasses from the church, including some to other families, are studied and an overview given of their significance.

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Reduced price book offers

The MBS has been able to offer to members the opportunity to buy, at a substantial discount on the retail price, some books on brasses written by MBS members.

Recent offers have included:

S. Badham and M. Norris, Early Incised Slabs and Brasses from the London Marblers (1999)

T. Cooper (ed.), The Journal of William Dowsing (2001)

N. Saul, Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England: the Cobham Family and their Monuments 1300-1500 (2001)

P. Coss and M. Keen (eds.), Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England (2002)

John Higgitt, Katherine Forsyth and David Parsons (eds.), Roman, Runes

and Ogham (Shaun Tyas, 2002). A series of 21 essays on medieval

inscriptions in the Insular World and on the Continent, including Jerome

Bertram 'Inscriptions on Late Medieval Brasses and Monuments' and

Sally Badham 'The Contribution of Epigraphy to the Typological

Classification of Medieval English Brasses and Incised Slabs'.

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Page last updated 20 January 2012

Credits

The Bulletin is available online from 2010 onwards: MBS Bulletin

	Bedfordshire (1992)
*	Berkshire (1993)
*	Buckinghamshire (1994)
*	Cambridgeshire (1995)
*	Cheshire (1996)
*	Cornwall (1997)
*	Cumberland and Westmoreland (1998)
*	Derbyshire (1999)
*	Derbyshire (1999
*	Dorset (2001)
*	Durham (2002)
*	Essex (2003)
*	Gloucestershire (2005)
*	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (2007)
*	Herefordshire (2008)
*	Hertfordshire (2009)

VolXVIII, Part 2, 2010

Vol XVIII Part 1 2009

Vol XVI Part 4 2000-1

Sally Badham	Cast copper-alloy tombs and London Series B brass production in the late fourteenth century
Philip Whittemore	The brass of Edward, Duke of York, d. 1415, at Fotheringhay, Northants
Philip Whittemore	The Guildford tomb in Chelsea Old Church
Paul Cockerham	The incised slab to an architect at Caudebec-en-Croix, Seine-Marne
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2001-2002
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Volume XVI Part 1, 1997

Nicholas Rogers
Sally Badham	The Bacon Brass at Gorleston Suffolk
Ronald van Belle	Woodland pastimes on the Cortschoof Brass and other Flemish Brasses
Hans Gerd Dormagen	Katharina, Duchess of Guelders
Jerome Bertram	A Pentuple Palimpsest
Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan	History Writ in Brass - the Fermer Workshop Part II (iv)
Bryan Egan	Conservation of Brasses 1994-5
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses 1996
Review	Martine Plovier ed., Laon - Une Acropole à la française
Other items:	Obituary: Dr Johan Belonge (1899-1996)
	Portfolio of Small Plates
	Accounts 1996

Cover of 1997 Transaction

Vol XVIII Part 1 2009

	Editorial
Ellie Pridgeon	The function of St. Christopher imagery in medieval churches, c.1250 to c.1525: wall painting and brass
Kelcey Wilson-Lee	A fifteenth century brass at Swithland Leicestershire, and the commemoration of religious females in late medieval England
Rhianydd Biebrach	Conspicuous by their absence: rethinking explanations for the lack of brasses in medieval Wales
Nigel Saul	The brass of Sir William d’Audley at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire
Jerome Bertram and Robert Hutchinson	The Coverts of Slaugham or three brasses disentangled
Ronald van Belle	Villers-Vermont, France
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2008
	Reviews
	Obituary
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Sally Badham	The West Family of Hinton Martell, Dorset, and their Monuments at Christchurch Priory.
Patrick Farman, Peter Hacker and Sally Badham	Incised Slab Discoveries at Tickhill, Yorkshire
Reinhard Lamp	Johannes Lűneburg, d. 1461, Katharinekirche, Lűbeck
Claude Blair	The Monument of Saint Henry of Finland: A Reassessment
Derrick Chivers	The Monument of Saint Henry of Finland: An Assessment of its Construction and Conservation
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2006-07
	Review: Peter Sherlock, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England by Jerome Bertram
	Portfolio of Small Plates
	Index to Volume 17

Vol XVII Part 6 2008

H Martin Stuchfield	John Coales, O.B.E., F.S.A., 1931-2007
Sally Badham	Patterns of Patronage: Brasses to the Cromwell-Bourchier Kinship Group
Kelcey Wilson-Lee	The Quatremain Mausoleum at Thame, Oxfordshire
Hans Gerd Dormagen	Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1498-1510)
Philip Whittemore	A Koranic Inscription in an English Church: The Kinsley brass at Eversley, Hampshire
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2005
	Review: Philip Lindley, Tomb Destuction and Scholarship: Medieval Monuments in Early Modern England by Jerome Bertram
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Vol XVII Part 5 2007

Vol XVII Part 4 2006C

Hadrien Kockerols	Two Incised Slabs from the Abbey of Val-Saint-Lambert near Liège
Nigel Saul	The Wool Merchants and their Brasses
Reinhard Lamp	Eghard I von Hanensee
Sally Badham	Thomas Adynet and his brass at Northleach, Gloucestershire
Ronald Van Belle	The world of folly: The foot panels of the Walsokne brass and the persistence of its iconography over the centuries. Part II.
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2004
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Vol XVII Part 3 2005

Ronald Van Belle	The world of folly: The foot panels of the Walsokne brass and the persistence of its iconography over the centuries. Part I.
Sally Badham	The London C workshop
Jerome Bertram	The brass of John and Elizabeth Vampage at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire
Hans-Gerd Dormagen	Hermann Blankfordt
Jerome Bertram	Oxfordshire styles II and III
David Meara	A brass to Samuel Richardson
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2003
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Vol XVII Part 1: 2003

Nicholas Rogers	Editorial
JenniferWard	Elizabeth Beaumont, Countess of Oxford
Reinhard Lamp	Foot Inscriptions on Three Lincolnshire Brasses
Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan	History Writ in Bras - the Fermer WorkshopPart II (vii)
Philip Whittemore	A Note of the Castell Brass at Littleton,Middlesex
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 1999-2000
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Volume VI Part 5 2002

Oystein Ekroll	Two Rediscovered Fragments of Monumental Brasses from Niraros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway
Sophie Oosterwijk	A Chrysom Brass at Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire
Jerome Bertram	Oxfordshire Styles I: The Drunken Marbler
William Lack and Philip Whittemore	British Museum IV (10) Skipwith Shield: An Additional Note
Peter J. Heseltine and Barbara D. Henry	An American Collection of Books and Letters about Brasses
Sally Badham and Ron Fiske	John Sell Cotman's Sepulchral Brasses of Norfolk and Suffolk
Other items:	Portfolio of Small Plates
	Accounts 2002

Volume XVI Part 4, 2000-2001

Cover of 2000-2001 Transactions

This special double-issue of MBS Transactions is devoted to the memory of the late Walter Mendelsson FSA, for many years Secretary and latterly a Vice-President of the MBS. One of the initiatives he warmly supported was a one-day symposium at the British Museum on 21 June 1997. In this issue the papers given that day, together with others relating to brasses in the British Museum's collection.

Nicholas Rogers	Editorial
Stephen Freeth	The Brasses of the British Museum: A Historical Survey
Paul T. Craddock	Some Analyses of Medieval Monumental Brasses
Lynda Dennison	French or Flemish? A Fragment of a Pontifical Brass in the British Museum
Leslie A Smith	Change and Decay at Northfleet, Kent: The fate of the Brass of Peter de Lacy (d. 1375)
Nicholas Rogers	Two Palimpsest Roundels
William Lack and Philip Whittemore	Granchester and Brinkley: Two Lost Brasses Identified
Jerome Bertram	Fragments from Oxfordshire
Derrick Chivers	Fragments from Oxfordshire
Stephen Freeth	A List of Brasses in the British Museum
Nicholas Rogers	Concordance of British Museum Registration and Mill Stephenson Numbers
Other items:	Review: Paul, Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation by Eamon Duffy
	Obituaries: Walter Mendelsson FSA (1930-2000) John Philip Cozens Kent, BA, PhD, FBA, FSA (1928-2000)
	Accounts 2000
	Accounts 2001

Volume XVI Part 3, 1999

Cover of 1999 Transactions

Sally Badham and Martin Stuchfield with an appendix by Peter Northover	A civilian of c.1400 in Private Possession
Reinhard Lamp	Rupert of Julich-Berg, Bishop of Paderborn
Paul Binski	An Analysis of the Length of Plates used for English Monumental Brasses
Jerome Bertram	The Jattendal Fragment
Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan	History Writ in Brass - the Fermer Workshop Part II (vi)
Peter Hacker and Patrick Farman	An Heraldic Coffin Plate to Bridget Lady Heathcote - a Product of Thomas Chippendale's London Workshop
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 1998
Other items:	Review: Sally Badham and Malcolm Norris, Early Incised Slabs and Brasses from the London Marblers
	Portfolio of Small Plates
	Accounts 1998

Volume XVI Part 2, 1998

Cover of 1998 Transactions

Tim Tatton-Brown	The Salisbury Cathedral Consecration Crosses
Nancy Briggs and Martin Stuchfield	Gosfield, Essex
Nigel Saul	William Maidstone at Ulcombe and Leeds
Sally Badham	Suffolk 1 Indents at Spalding, Lincolnshire and Waltham Abbey, Essex
Hans Gerd Dormagen	The Brass of Silvert van Rywick and Xanten, Germany
H.K. Cameron and Nancy Briggs	Tolleshunt D'Arcy Revisited
Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan	History Writ in Brass - the Fermer Workshop Part II (v)
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 1997
Other items:	Portfolio of Small Plates
	Portfolio of Small Plates

*	Dairy of events
*	Notices
*	Reports on past meetings, conferences and excursions
*	Brief articles related to brasses and incised slabs
*	Book reviews
*	Notes on books and articles on brasses, incised slabs and related ecclesiology.

Julia Boorman	Bishop Wyville’s Brass
Jonathan Moor	Aristocratic pretensions and heraldic skulduggery in fourteenth century Shropshire: Sir Nicholas Burnell at Acton Burnell
Ronald van Belle	An Incised Slab Discovery in Bruges and some other Bruges Slabs
Truus van Bueren	The Brass of Joost van Amstel van Mijnden
Philip Whittamore	Murdered by Greek Brigands: The Sad Story of Frederick Vyner
William Lack	Conservation of Brasses, 2009
	Reviews
	Obituary
	Portfolio of Small Plates

Vol XVIII Part 1 2010