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MBS TransactionsTransactions 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:
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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 | Two French Incised Slabs in the British Museum |
| Stephen Freeth | A List of Brasses in the British Museum |
| Nicholas Rogers | Concordance of British Museum Registration and Mill Stephenson Numbers |
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| Review: | Paul, Binski, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation by Eamon Duffy |
| Obituaries: | Walter Mendelsson FSA (1930-2000) JohnPhilip Cozens Kent, BA, PhD, FBA, FSA (1928-2000) |
| Accounts 2000 | |
| Accounts 2001 |
| 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 |
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| Portfolio of Small Plates | |
| Accounts 2002 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Mears | A brass to Samuel Richardson |
| William Lack | Conservation of Brasses, 2003 |
| Portfolio of Small Plates |
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Some back issues are available for sale. To enquire about availability
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Suffolk NR33 7LS
Phone 01502 560639
Articles for Transactions are welcomed from members and non-members alike. They should be sent to:
The Hon. Editor will be pleased to discuss proposed articles before drafts are considered.
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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:
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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
Mr. Leslie A. Smith
68 Charles Street
Herne Bay
Kent CT6 5HWor email leslieasmith@supanet.com
Notes on books and articles should be sent to:
Mr. Richard Busby F.S.A.
1 Palmerston Close
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire AL8 7DL
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| 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. |
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The volumes published to date are:
 | Bedfordshire (1992) |
| Berkshire (1993) |
| Buckinghamshire (1994) |
| Cambridgeshire (1995) |
| Cheshire (1996) |
| Cornwall (1997) |
| Cumberland and Westmoreland (1998) |
| Derbyshire (1999 |
| Devonshire (2000) |
| Dorset (2001) |
| Durham (2002) |
| Essex (2003) |
| Gloucestershire (2005) |
| Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (2007) |
Copies of the Durham volume are available from the cathedral bookstall.
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The MBS produces occasional publications from time to time.
Past publications still available for sale are:
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Cover of MBS publication edited by John Coales, The Earliest English Brasses |
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Cover of Monumental Brasses as Art and History, edited by Jerome Betram, published by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited and the Monumental Brass Society |
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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 |
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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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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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