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Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery
Christie No.: 65
United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, British Library
first quarter 14c.
Christ, Crucifixion
Back cover of British Library, MS Sloane 2400.
Embroidered panel on linen ground incorporated into 18th century binding. Earliest known surviving embroidered binding.
Previously owned by Anne Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge (1368-1442).
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Davenport, C., English Embroidered Bookbindings (1899), pp. 28-30; fig. 3 (reconstruction)
Christie, A., "English Primitives - London Painters and Opus Anglicanum," Burlington Magazine, LIII (1928), p. 266
Wallis, P., "Embroidered Binding of the Felbrigge Psalter," British Library Journal, XIII (1987), pp. 71-78