Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Chain of double links, with central crutch for suspension, from which hang nineteen pendants: twelve reliquaries, a bell, four medals and two crosses. \Oval case of two stained gl...

Bracelet made up of four rings, from which hang as many double-link chains. The original ribbon (atacadera) that allowed the suspension of the whole is not preserved in this case e...

Pope Clement XI with liturgical stole...

Portrait miniature of Miss Wells, watercolour on vellum, painted by Peter Cross, 1690-1700.  Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book ...

Cope with silk fringe, the embroidery depicting figures of saints undergoing various forms of martyrdom, Germany, 1310-1320. Cope of canvas embroidered with coloured silks in short...

Henri-Edmond Cross was born on May 20, 1856 in Douai, a small town close to the Belgian border in northern France. He spent his youth in Lille and there, at the age of ten, took dr...

Made up of fragments from a late Anglo-Saxon liturgical chant book, the Caligula Troper's illuminations introduce songs which would be inserted into the mass on special feast days ...