Links
Listed below are links to other sites of interest. Click on the blue underlined text to transfer to that site. To return to the MBS site, use your back button. If you would like to go direct to a particular section of the links guide click on the section heading below:
Featured Website
Every few months, we will feature a particular site from the lists below.
During the reign of Louis XIV, Roger de Gaignières commissioned many drawings of French funeral monuments. The majority of these monuments were destroyed during the French revolution, so the drawings give us a picture of what was lost, including many brasses and incised slabs. Many of the drawings have been put online by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Perhaps the easiest way to access the drawings of brasses is via the Europeana portal, using Gaignières and cuivre as search terms, while Gaignières and pierre tombale will show the incised slabs. To find individual items, it is best to consult the second volume of Bouchot’s inventory of the drawings and use his numbers in the search , eg a search on Gaignières and 4630 will produce the brass of Louis de Villiers, Bishop of Beauvais. Bouchot’s inventory can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/inventairedesdes02pariuoft or http://books.google.com/books?id=xioEAAAAYAAJ
If you have a website or know of one not listed here that you think would be of relevance
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Searchable database containing catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day. | |
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Searches for images on a specified subject. | |
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Searchable picture archive of art and architecture including monuments NB dial- | |
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Searchable index to internet resources concerning European Archaeology | |
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Reproductions on CD of antiquarian books including on brasses and other monuments. (under Graves and MIs) . The UK site is now closed for business. The link here is to the Irish sister site but there are other sister sites elsewhere. | |
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The Department of Antiquities holds in its reserve collections a collection of rubbings of brasses (not currently available for public inspection). These are listed on the brass rubbing section of its Collections page on its website, which also has an extensive gallery of brass rubbings. | |
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The French national library (BnF). It contains most of the Gaignières drawings of French monuments made before the majority of them were destroyed in the French Revolution. | |
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Catalogue for manuscript holdings in Cambridge University Library. | |
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Images from the British Library. For brasses in particular, see the King George III Topographical Collection although there are some in other areas of the collection. | |
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Website on Lincolnshire churches and their contents with a useful selection of monuments from a wider region. Includes a section (never completed) on cadaver monuments, which would have had more illustrations of brasses | |
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Guildhall Library and Art Gallery , London, image database including pictures of existing and lost brasses and other monuments in London | |
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A series of fully illustrated guides to the monumental brasses of the British Isles. | |
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Fordham University guide for research on the medieval period and other topics. | |
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Searches for images on a specified subject. Searches the contents of books | |
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Many older books can be downloaded from this site or searched and read online individually. Downloads in pdf format are larger than those from Google Book Search because they are indexed and can be searched offline.The Open Library site provides an elementary search to the contents of the books on both the Internet Archive and Google. | |
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Extensive Fordham University site with a searchable archive of primary and secondary sources of many aspects of the medieval period | |
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A digital library of photographs of the 370,000 listed buildings in England. | |
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Extensive listings of text, image and archival databases and websites with resources for medieval studies, arts, architecture, archaeology, chivalry, arms, heraldry and many other related topics, set up by Georgetown University. | |
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Extensive website on medieval English genealogy, with much information on sources and a good section on funeral monuments including brasses (with some illustrations). | |
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Publications Website for the Medieval Institute of the Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, which has an extensive publication programme, including Medieval Review, which carries reviews of current work in all areas of medieval studies. | |
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Searchable index to information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history. | |
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Simon Knott’s guide to Norfolk churches. Photographs of brasses often illustrate the entries for particular churches. | |
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Search facility for Norfolk CC photograph library (also includes some photos of brasses and related items in adjacent counties) | |
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Database of finds recorded under the Portable Antiquities Scheme. A search on 'brass' reveals a list of Lombardic letters and other fragments from brasses, most of them illustrated by photographs. | |
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Website on Purbeck marble with illustrations of medieval tombs | |
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Simon Knott’s guide to Suffolk churches. Photographs of brasses often illustrate the entries for particular churches. | |
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The View Buildings website provides access to the unique photographic archive of a project that is documenting the corpus of architecturally interesting & historically important buildings and their contents (including brasses up to 1800, figure indents and other monuments) in England. Most of the site is viewable only on the payment of a subscription. |
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The National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. | |
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A resource for church maintenance issues developed by the Church of England in association with the Council for Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Insurance. | |
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Formerly the Redundant Churches Fund, the trust owns and looks after redundant churches of historical and architectural interest, which have been transferred to it by the Church of England. | |
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Organisation which regularly publishes important works on archaeology. | |
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The Government's lead body on the historic environment in England. | |
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Public archive of 10 million photos including church monuments. | |
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Charitable body for the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities of this and other countries. Its collections include the most comprehensive collection of rubbings of brasses and incised slabs. |
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Society for the study and conservation of ancient and historic buildings and craftsmanship in the UK | |
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Furthers the study of arms and armour from the earliest times. | |
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Promotes the study of archaeology, art and architecture and promotes the preservation of antiquities | |
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Promotes the care, conservation and study of the ecclesiastical buildings of England and Ireland | |
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International society for the study of all types of church monuments of all periods. | |
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Society for the study of church architecture, furnishings and liturgy. An especially extensive and useful website. | |
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Founded to save, from demolition or ill use, places of worship of architectural or historic interest. | |
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The Historical Association is the voice for history. It brings together people who hare an interest in, and love for the past. It aims to further the study and teaching of history at all levels. | |
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Promotes the study of the visual arts of the medieval period in Europe. | |
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Forum for the study of all aspects of dress and textiles in medieval times. | |
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Largest organisation in the world devoted to medieval studies. | |
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Promotes research into the life and times of King Richard III. | |
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Promotes, encourages and fosters the study of genealogy. | |
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Society for the study of archaeology from the 5th to the 16th century. | |
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Society for the study of life in the centuries after the Middle Ages. | |
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Society for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts. |