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REPLY1850

Curious Monumental Brass

By ARUN.

If "RAHERE" will turn to Mr. Boutell's *Monumental Brasses and Slabs*, p. 148., he will there find a description as well as an engraving of what, from his account, I doubt not he will discover to be the identical fragment to which he refers. A foot legend, and what remains of a border inscription, is added to it. In the above work, pp. 147 to 155, and in the Oxford Architectural Society's *Manual for the Study of Brasses*, p. 15., "RAHERE" will find an account and references to numerous examples of palimpsest brasses, to which class the one in question belongs. I presume that "RAHERE" is a you…

Topics: Monumental Brasses, Palimpsest Brasses, Architectural Studies

Locations: Oxford