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Description: | With about 13,000 examples, this is the most comprehensive colletcion of rubbings of pre-1700 British monumental brasses, representing all those known in 1926 and since. The collection was complied by Kill Stephenson (FSA 1888-1937) who published his "List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles" in 1926. Subequent dioscoveries have been addess by fellows, notably by Ralph Griffin who published an Appendix to the "List" in 1939. The collection is organised by location and church. There are some continental brasses and rubbings of palimpsest brasses were given by John Page Phillips (FSA 1981-1992), which he published in "Palimpsests: the backs of moumental brasses" in 1980 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)20 7287 6967 | Telephone: | +44 (0)20 7479 7080 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5110 | Go to resource |
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