Transactions (Journal)
Transactions is an annual members only publication featuring articles on brasses and incised slabs, with an average of 100 pages in each issue.
Volumes of the Transactions for period from 1992 to 2015 are available as downloadable PDF files. Volumes for 2016 to 2019 are available free to members
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2015 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 2)
- Editorial
- A Debate with Death: John Rudyng’s Brass in St. Andrew’s Church, Biggleswade
by Neil Cartlidge - A Cadaver in Context:
the Shroud Brass of John Brigge Revisited
by David Harry - The Southwark Workshops, 1585-1605
by Jon Bayliss - Brasses in the Church of Our Lady and
Alphonsus, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
by George McHardy - Conservation of Brasses, 2014
by William Lack - Book Reviews
- Portfolio of Small Plates
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2015 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 2) -
2014 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 1)
- The Tomb and Seal of John Trillek, Bishop of Hereford: some comparative thoughts
by Elizabeth New - ‘Pause and pray with mournful heart’:
Late Medieval Clerical Monuments in Lincoln Cathedral
by David Lepine - John Waryn and his Cadaver Brass,
formerly in Menheniot Church, Cornwall
by Paul Cockerham and Nicholas Orme - The Victor of St. George’s Cay:
Commander John Ralph Moss, R.N. (1759-99)
by Michael Harris - Conservation of Brasses, 2013
by William Lack
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2014 Transactions (Volume XIX, Part 1) - The Tomb and Seal of John Trillek, Bishop of Hereford: some comparative thoughts
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2013 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 5)
- Monumental Brass Society: Grant of Arms and Crest
by Thomas Woodcock - The Brass of King Christopher I at Ribe
by Jerome Bertram - The Commemorative Strategies of the Frowyks of Medieval London and Middlesex
by Jessica Freeman - Cathédrale ou Collégiale?: Monuments and Commemoration in Late Medieval Toul
by Paul Cockerham - Lettering on Small Brass Plates 1600-1850
George Thomson - Animal Creation: the Curious Brass to Thomas Rymer Jones
by Philip Whittemore
- Conservation of Brasses, 2012
by William Lack
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2013 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 5) - Monumental Brass Society: Grant of Arms and Crest
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2012 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 4)
- Obligations and Strategy: Managing Memory in the Later Medieval Parish
by Clive Burgess - Each According to their Degree: the Lost Brasses of the Thorpes of Northamptonshire
by Robert Kinsey - Embellishment and Restoration: the Barttelots and their Brasses at Stopham, Sussex
by Jerome Bertram - The Brass to the Revd. Montague Henry Noel, d. 1929,
St. Barnabas, Oxford
by David Meara - Conservation of brasses, 2011
by William Lack
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2012 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 4) - Obligations and Strategy: Managing Memory in the Later Medieval Parish
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2011 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 3)
- The Hastings Brass at Elsing: A Contextual Analysis
by Julian Luxford - The Inscriptions of the Blodwell Brass at Balsham, Cambridgeshire
by Reinhard Lamp - Jankyn Smith of Bury St. Edmunds and his Brass
by Margaret Statham and Sally Badham - The Indent of John Aylward: Glass and Brass at East Harling
by David King - Conservation of brasses, 2010
by William Lack
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2011 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 3) - The Hastings Brass at Elsing: A Contextual Analysis
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2010 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 2)
- Bishop Wyville's Brass
by Julia Boorman - Aristocratic pretension and heraldic skulduggery in fourteenth-century Shropshire: Sir Nicholas Burnell
of Acton Burnell
by Jonathan Moor - An Incised Slab Discovery in Bruges and some other
Bruges Slabs
by Ronald van Belle - The Brass of Joost van Amstel van Mijnden
by Truus van Bueren - Murdered by Greek Brigands: The Sad Story of
Frederick Vyner
by Philip Whittemore - Conservation of brasses, 2009
by William Lack
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2010 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 2) - Bishop Wyville's Brass
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2009 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 1)
- The function of St. Christopher imagery in medieval
churches, c. 1250 to c. 1525: wall-painting and brass
by Ellie Pridgeon - A fifteenth-century brass at Swithland, Leicestershire, and
the commemoration of female religious in late-medieval England
by Kelcey Wilson-Lee - Conspicuous by their absence: rethinking explanations
for the lack of brasses in medieval Wales
by Rhianydd Biebrach - The brass of Sir William d’Audley at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire
by Nigel Saul - The Coverts of Slaugham or three brasses disentangled
by Jerome Bertram and Robert Hutchinson - Villers-Vermont, France
by Ronald van Belle - Conservation of brasses, 2008
by William Lack - Reviews
- Obituary: Nancy Raymonde Briggs, M.A., F.S.A.
(1929-2009), Vice-President
by H. Martin Stuchfield - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2009 Transactions (Volume XVIII, Part 1) - The function of St. Christopher imagery in medieval
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2008 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 6)
- The West family of Hinton Martell, Dorset, and their monuments at Christchurch Priory
by Sally Badham - Incised Slab Discoveries at Tickhill, Yorkshire
by Patrick Farman, Peter Hacker and Sally Badham - Johannes Lüneburg, d. 1461, Katharinenkirche, Lübeck
by Reinhard Lamp - The Monument of Saint Henry of Finland: A Reassessment
by Claude Blair - The Monument of Saint Henry of Finland:
An Assessment of its Construction and Conservation
by Derrick Chivers - Conservation of Brasses, 2006-07
by William Lack - Book Review
- Portfolio of Small Plates
- Index to Volume XVII
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2008 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 6) - The West family of Hinton Martell, Dorset, and their monuments at Christchurch Priory
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2007 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 5)
- Obituary: John Coales, O.B.E., F.S.A. (1931-2007), Patron
by H. Martin Stuchfield - Patterns of Patronage: Brasses to the Cromwell-Bourchier Kinship Group
by Sally Badham - The Quatremain Mausoleum at Thame, Oxfordshire
by Kelcey Wilson-Lee - Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1498-1510)
by Hans Gerd Dormagen - A Koranic Inscription in an English Church:
The Kinsley brass at Eversley, Hampshire
by Philip Whittemore - Conservation of Brasses, 2005
by William Lack - Book Review
- Portfolio of Small Plates
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2007 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 5) - Obituary: John Coales, O.B.E., F.S.A. (1931-2007), Patron
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2006 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 4)
Including:
- Two Incised Slabs from the Abbey of
Val-Saint-Lambert near Liège
by Hadrien Kockerols - The Wool Merchants and their Brasses
by Nigel Saul - Eghard I von Hanensee, d. 1405
by Reinhard Lamp - Thomas Adynet and his brass at Northleach, Gloucestershire
by Sally Badham - The world of folly: The foot panels of the Walsokne brass and the persistence of its iconography over the centuries. Part II
by Ronald Van Belle - Conservation of Brasses, 2004
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2006 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 4) - Two Incised Slabs from the Abbey of
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2005 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 3)
Including:
- The World of Folly: The Foot-panels of the Walsokne Brass and the Persistence of their Iconography over the Centuries. Part I
- by Ronald van Belle
- The London C Workshop
by Sally Badham - The Brass of John and Elizabeth Vampage at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire
by Jerome Bertram -
Hermann Blankfordtby Hans-Gerd Dormagen
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Oxfordshire styles II and IIIby Jerome Bertram
- A brass to Samuel Richardson
by David Meara - Conservation of Brasses, 2003
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2005 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 3) -
2004 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 2)
Including:
- Cast Copper-alloy Tombs and London Series B Brass Production in the late fourteenth century
by Sally Badham - The Brass of Edward, Duke of York, d. 1415,
at Fotheringhay, Northants
by Philip Whittemore - The Guildford Tomb in Chelsea Old Church
by Philip Whittemore - The Incised Slab to an Architect at
Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime
by Paul Cockerham - Conservation of Brasses, 2001-2002
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2004 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 2) - Cast Copper-alloy Tombs and London Series B Brass Production in the late fourteenth century
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2003 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 1)
- Editorial
- Elizabeth Beaumont, Countess of Oxford
by Jennifer Ward - Foot Inscriptions on Three Lincolnshire Brasses
by Reinhard Lamp - History Writ in Brass: the Fermer Workshop Part II (vii)
by Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan - A Note of the Castell Brass at Littleton, Middlesex
Philip Whittemore - Conservation of Brasses, 1999-2000
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2003 Transactions (Volume XVII, Part 1) -
2002 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 5)
- Two Rediscovered Fragments of Monumental Brassesfrom Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norwayby Oystein Ekroll
- A Chrysom Brass at Sheriff Hutton, Yorks
by Sophie Oosterwijk - Oxfordshire Styles I: The Drunken Marbler
by Jerome Bertram - British Museum IV (10) Skipwith Shield: An Additional Note
by William Lack and Philip Whittemore - An American Collection of Books and Letters about Brasses
by Peter J. Hesletine and Barbara D. Henry - John Sell Cotman’s Sepulchral Brasses of Norfolk and Suffolk
by Sally Badham and Ron Fiske - Portfolio of Small Plates
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2002 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 5) -
2000-2001 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 4)
- Editorial
- The Brasses of the British Museum: A Historical Survey
by Stephen Freeth - Some Analyses of Medieval Monumental Brasses
by Paul T. Craddock - French or Flemish? A Fragment of a Pontifical Brass
in the British Museum
by Lynda Dennison - Change and Decay at Northfleet, Kent:
The fate of the Brass of Peter de Lacy (d. 1375)
by Leslie A. Smith - Two Palimpsest Roundels
by Nicholas Rogers - Granchester and Brinkley: Two Lost Brasses Identified
by William Lack and Philip Whittemore - Fragments from Oxfordshire
by Jerome Bertram - Fragments from Oxfordshire
by Derrick Chivers - A List of Brasses in the British Museum
by Stephen Freeth - Concordance of British Museum Registration
and Mill Stephenson Numbers
by Nicholas Rogers - Book Review
- Obituary: Walter Mendelsson, F.S.A.
(1930-2000), Vice-President
by H. Martin Stuchfield - Obituary: John Philip Cozens Kent, B.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., F.S.A. (1928-2000)
by John Cherry
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2000-2001 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 4) -
1999 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 3)
- A civilian of c.1400 in Private Possession
by Sally Badham and Martin Stuchfield
with an appendix by Peter Northover - Rupert of Julich-Berg, Bishop of Paderborn
by Reinhard Lamp - An Analysis of the Length of Plates used for
English Monumental Brasses
by Paul Binski - The Jattendal Fragment
by Jerome Bertram - History Writ in Brass: the Fermer Workshop Part II (vi)
by Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan - An Heraldic Coffin Plate to Bridget Lady Heathcote:
a Product of Thomas Chippendale's London Workshop
by Peter Hacker and Patrick Farman - Conservation of Brasses, 1998
by William Lack - Book Review
- Portfolio of Small Plates
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1999 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 3) - A civilian of c.1400 in Private Possession
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1998 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 2)
- The Salisbury Cathedral Consecration Crosses
by Tim Tatton-Brown - Gosfield, Essex
by Nancy Briggs and Martin Stuchfield - William Maidstone at Ulcombe and Leeds
by Nigel Saul - Suffolk 1 Indents at Spalding, Lincolnshire
and Waltham Abbey, Essex - by Sally Badham
- The Brass of Silvert van Rywick and Xanten, Germany
by Hans Gerd Dormagen - Tolleshunt D’Arcy Revisited
by H.K. Cameronand Nancy Briggs - History Writ in Brass: the Fermer Workshop Part II (v)
by Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan - Conservation of Brasses, 1997
by William Lack - Portfolio of Small Plates
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1998 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 2) - The Salisbury Cathedral Consecration Crosses
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1997 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 1)
- Editorial
by Nicholas Rogers - The Bacon Brass at Gorleston Suffolk
by Sally Badham - Woodland pastimes on the Cortschoof Brass
and other Flemish Brasses
by Ronald van Belle - Katharina, Duchess of Guelders
by Hans Gerd Dormagen - A Pentuple Palimpsest
by Jerome Bertram - History Writ in Brass: the Fermer Workshop Part II (iv)
by Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan - Conservation of Brasses 1994-5
by Bryan Egan - Conservation of Brasses 1996
by William Lack - Book Review
- Obituary: Dr Johan Belonge (1899-1996)
by John Coales - Portfolio of Small Plates
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1997 Transactions (Volume XVI, Part 1) - Editorial
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1996 Transactions (Volume XV, Part 5)
- Editorial
by Jerome Bertram - Status and Salvation
by Sally Badham - History Writ in Brass: the Fermer Workshop Part II (iii)
by Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan - Sir Mark Sykes and the Sledmere Brasses
by David Meara - Conservation of Brasses, 1995
by William Lack - Conservation of Brasses 1989-93
by Bryan Egan - Portfolio of Small Plates
- Index to Volume XV
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1996 Transactions (Volume XV, Part 5) - Editorial
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1995 Transactions (Volume XV, Part 4)
- Two unknown Brasses in the German Rhineland
by R. Brockmann - An Incised Effigial slab at Helland, Cornwall
by Paul Cockerham - Notes on Sussex Brasses
by Robert Hutchinson - History Writ in Brass: the Fermer Workshop Part II (ii)
by Robert Hutchinson and Bryan Egan - Conservation of Brasses 1994
by William Lack - Conservation of Brasses 1984-88
by Bryan Egan - Obituary: Malcolm Watson Norris,
B.A., M.Soc.Sc., Ph.D., F.S.A. (1931-1995), President
by H. Martin Stuchfield - Portfolio of Small Plates
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1995 Transactions (Volume XV, Part 4) - Two unknown Brasses in the German Rhineland
Right: detail from the monumental brass to Margaret [Sidney, died 1503], one of the gentlewomen to Queens Elizabeth [Widville] and Elizabeth [of York], wife of Nicholas Gaynesford, one of the esquires for the body to Edward IV and Henry VII, from Carshalton, Surrey. Photo: ©Martin Stuchfield