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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 1 1997

                    Vol XVI Part 2 1998

                    Vol XVI Part 3 1999

                    Vol XVI Part 4 2000-1

                    Vol XVI part 5 2002

                    Vol XVII part 1 2003

                    Vol XVII Part 2 2004

                    Vol XVII Part 3 2005

Vol XVII Part 4 2006

Vol XVII Part 5 2007

Volume XVI Part 1, 1997

Cover of 1997 Transaction 

Nicholas Rogers

Editorial

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

Other items:

Review: 

Martine Plovier ed., Laon - Une Acropole à la française

Obituary:

Dr Johan Belonge (1899-1996)

 Portfolio of Small Plates

Accounts 1996

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

Accounts 1997

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 Chipendale'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 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

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

Other items:

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

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

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

Vol XVII Part 2 2004

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

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

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

Jane Houghton on Aspiringchurchbooks@hotmail.com

or at 9 Enstone Road  

        Lowestoft

        Suffolk NR33 0NE

Phone 01502 501916

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:

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.

Cover of September 2009 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:

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)

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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)

Cover of MBS publication edited by John Coales, The Earliest English Brasses

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 09 December 2009

Credits

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.

Sally Badham

Thomas Adynet and his brass at Northleach, Gloucestershire

William Lack

Conservation of Brasses, 2004

Portfolio of Small Plates

Reinhard Lamp

Eghard I von Hanensee

Nigel Saul

The Wool Merchants and their Brasses

Hadrien Kockerols

Two Incised Slabs from the Abbey of Val-Saint-Lambert near Liège

Vol XVII Part 4 2006

Vol XVIII Part 5 2007