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The Maaseik embroideries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Mildred Budny
Affiliation:
Downing College, Cambridge
Dominic Tweddle
Affiliation:
The York Archaeological Trust

Extract

Among the relics in the treasury of the church of St Catherine at Maaseik in Limburg, Belgium, there are some luxurious embroideries which form part of the so-called casula (probably ‘chasuble’) of Sts Harlindis and Relindis (pls. I–VI). It was preserved throughout the Middle Ages at the abbey church of Aldeneik (which these sister-saints founded in the early eighth century) and was moved to nearby Maaseik in 1571. Although traditionally regarded as the handiwork of Harlindis and Relindis themselves, the embroideries cannot date from as early as their time, and they must have been made in Anglo-Saxon England. Indeed, they represent the earliest surviving examples of the highly prized English art of embroidery which became famous later in the Middle Ages as opus anglicanum.

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8 The study has benefited greatly from the kind assistance of Sir David Wilson, Leslie Webster, James Graham-Campbell, Raymond Page, Peter Lasko, George Taylor, Harry Appleyard, Andrew Oddy, Michael Cowell, Justine Bayley, David Ganz, Stuart Airlie, Simon Keynes, Donald Bullough, Julian Brown, Yehuda Safran, Wendy Stein, Linda Brownrigg, Philip Lewis, John-Peter Wild, Penelope Walton, Hero Granger-Taylor, Margaret McCord, Donald King, Daniël Dejonghe, René Derolez, Hubert Heymans and Alain Dierkens. Helen Humphreys prepared the drawings. We took the photographs. Deacon Olaerts, Pastor Overbeek and the Kerkfabrik of the St-Catharinakerk at Maaseik kindly permitted us to undertake the study and offered us every facility in order to expedite it.

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23 The system of labelling adopted here to refer concisely to the different parts of the arcades employs roman numerals to distinguish between the two strips and arabic numerals to indicate the individual spandrels, arches, piers or arched fields, starting with the first spandrel, arch, pier or arched field at the left in the arcade as viewed upright.

24 Roman numerals are used to distinguish between the two strips, arabic numerals to distinguish between the five roundels in each horizontal row, and capital letters to distinguish between the two rows. According to this system, the upper left-hand roundel on strip I is roundel I. ia and the lower right-hand roundel on strip II is roundel II. ia.

25 Previously the monograms have been taken to represent M and A (Calberg, ‘Tissus’, p. 12; Hendrickx, and Sangers, , Kerkschat, p. 27;Google Scholar and Dierkens, ‘L'Abbaye d'Aldeneik’ 1, 98), but the range of forms employed in display lettering in Anglo-Saxon and Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts of the period demands a wider choice. See Budny, Embroideries.

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85 Vita, pp. 386–7, §§ 10 and 13.

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