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THE CLOISTERS ARCHIVES Collection No. 30 The Cloisters Cross Research Papers Processed March 2014 and May 2019 The Cloisters Library The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ft. Tryon Park 99 Margaret Corbin Dr. New York, NY 10040 (212) 396-5365 [email protected] Collection Summary Title: The Cloisters Cross Research Papers Creators: Longland, Sabrina, Katherine Serrell Rorimer Dates: 1960-69; 1980-2000 Extent: 5 linear feet (11 boxes) Abstract: This collection relates to research conducted on “The Cloisters Cross” (Met Collection 63.12). Sabrina Longland was a Research Assistant with the Medieval Department of the Metropolitan Museum in the 1960s. Her papers (Series I) deal primarily with iconographic and historical research she conducted on behalf of Cloisters’ curator and later Met Director Thomas P. Hoving on The Cloisters Cross and related medieval pieces. Her papers involve Ms. Longland's research notes, photographs, reprints, published material, and correspondence. Series II, the papers of Katherine S. Rorimer relate to her investigations and writings to correct and refute inaccuracies found in Hoving’s 1981 book King of the Confessors, which recounts the acquisition of The Cloisters Cross by the Met (when Katherine Rorimer’s husband James was the museum Director). This series includes extensive research correspondence with Met and other museum professionals, and documents her attempts to publish numerous manuscripts on the topic, drafts of which are included in the collection. Administrative Information Provenance: The Longland papers would have been originally filed in the Medieval Department offices at the main building of the Metropolitan Museum. The date and circumstances of their transferal to The Cloisters archives is unknown. The Katherine Rorimer papers were retained by the Rorimer family in their New York apartment until 2018, when they were donated to the Met by Anne and Louis Rorimer for deposit in the Cloisters Library, through the efforts of Charles T. Little. Access: Open for research by appointment from The Cloisters Library and Archives staff. Location: The Cloisters Archives Room Form of Citation: Identification of item, date (if known), The Cloisters Cross Research Papers; box number; folder number; The Cloisters Library and Archives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Watsonline Record: http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1771445~S1 Biographical Notes Sabrina Longland received a BA Honours Degree at the Courtauld in June 1962, where she studied under Professor George Zarnecki and Christopher Hohler. She worked as a research Assistant for Professor Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on his Buildings of England series and wrote the list of Medieval terms for the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture by Pevsner, Hugh Honour, and John Fleming. In 1963 she moved to New York and in May of the next year she was appointed as Special Research Assistant at the Cloisters, primarily to study the ivory Cloisters Cross. Katherine (Kay) Serrell Rorimer (1908-2000) attended Wellesley College, held a Masters Degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and worked in the Library at The Metropolitan Museum for nine years. She was married to Cloisters and Met Director James Rorimer from 1942 until his death in 1966. She also worked as a researcher at the Index of Christian Art in Princeton and, at age 90, published her first novel, Leave It to Me. Bibliography: Hoving, Thomas. “The Bury St. Edmund’s Cross.” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 22, no. 10 (June, 1964), pp. 317-340. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3258225 Longland, Sabrina. “ ‘Pilate Answered: What I Have Written I Have Written.’ ” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 26, no. 10 (June, 1968), pp. 410-429. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3258813 Longland, Sabrina. “A literary aspect of the Bury St. Edmunds cross.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 2 (1969) pp. 45-74. http://0-www.jstor.org.library.metmuseum.org/stable/1512586 Longland, Sabrina. 'The “Bury St. Edmunds Cross": Its Exceptional Place in English Twelfth- Century Art.' The Connoisseur 172 (1969) pp. 163-73. Hoving, Thomas. King of the Confessors. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Parker, Elizabeth C. & Charles T. Little The Cloisters Cross: its Art and Meaning. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Cloisters_Cross_Its_Art_and_Meaning Rorimer, Katherine S. “Tresor de l’art roman anglais.” L’Estampille No. 211 (February 1988). Scope and Content Series I, papers of Sabrina Longland, predominantly center around scholarship she carried out on The Cloisters Cross in preparation for published works. Contents include notes, correspondence, study photos, and manuscripts. Series II, papers of Katherine Rorimer, consist primarily of research correspondence and multiple drafts of her manuscript addressing Thomas P. Hoving’s King of the Confessors. Shorter, published essays and talks on the object are also included. Of particular interest is the correspondence Kay Rorimer conducted for several years to refute many of the claims made by Hoving about the Cross, as well as stories about himself, James Rorimer, and other colleagues at the Met. Notable figures from outside the Met community are also addressed, such as art dealer Ante Topic Mimara and Cleveland Museum directors William Milliken and Sherman Lee. Arrangement Note: KSR=Katherine Serrell Rorimer Series I: Sabrina Longland Papers Subseries IA : Cloisters Cross: General Research Subseries IB: Cloisters Cross: Iconography Subseries IC: Cloisters Cross: Typological Cycles Subseries ID: Cloisters Cross: Cross Titulus Subseries IE: Cloisters Cross: Theology Subseries IF: Cloisters Cross: Synagogue Subseries IG: Related Objects Subseries I.H: Bibliographies and Illustrations Subseries I.i: Cloisters Cross Manuscripts Subseries I.J: Professional Papers and miscellanea Series II: Katherine Serrell Rorimer Papers Subseries IIA: Previously published Cloisters Cross material (non-KSR) Subseries IIB: KSR research notes and correspondence Subseries IIIC: KSR manuscript drafts Container List SERIES I: SABRINA LONGLAND PAPERS Subseries I.A : Cloisters Cross: General Research Box Folder Title 1 1 Small Ivory Reliquary Cross Sale, 1966 2 Ivories Correspondence 3 Cloisters Cross correspondence 4 Laud Bible Correspondence 5 Christ before Pilate correspondence 6 Sampson King John, correspondence 7 Bury Exhibition 8 Cross monograph: Chapter Outline; Miscellaneous Quotations 9 Cloisters Cross Inscriptions: letters and notes 10 Things to do: Research 11 Loose Papers: Correspondence, Research Notes, Etc. I 12 Loose Papers: Correspondence, Research Notes, Etc. II 13 Ivory Reliquary Crosses 14 Notes for Urbana 15 Altar Cross Notes 2 1 Bury St Edmunds, General & Bibliography 2 Bury Manuscript. M. Cotton Vitellius A XII (Fol 65 R) (Xeroxes from Photo) 3 Bury Manuscript. Harley 1585 4 Bury Manuscript. Harley 2278 5 Bury Manuscript. Harley Roll Y6 “Guthlac Roll” 6 Bury Manuscript. Landsdowne 381 (Psalter of Henry the Lion) 7 Bury Manuscript Landsdowne 383 (Shaftsbury Psalter) 8 Bury Manuscripts in files: cross references 9 Paleography 10 K.L. 11 Bibliography: Liturgy 12 Dugdale 13 Kaliscz 14 Jocelyn 15 Saxl 16 Cross Inscriptions 17 Crusades, especially the Third 18 St. Augustine Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons 19 Mosan Art, notes 20 Grodecki in “L’Art Mosan”: “Vitraux de Chalons-sur-Marne” 21 Inventories 22 [Miscellaneous Notes] Subseries I.B: Cloisters Cross: Iconography Box Folder Title 3 1 Iconography 2 Cross symbolism 3 Poenitentia 4 Centaurs 5 Alexander the Great Ascent 6 Palm Sunday Feasts of the Cross 7 Palm Sunday Ephraem the Syrian 8 Jews 9 Jews Migne Index 10 Disputes 11 Disputes in Art 12 Ezechiel: rotam in media rotae 13 Wolves 14 Tegernsee Antichrist 15 Walters Cross 16 Chalons-sur-Marne Window 17 Tree of Life – Palm Tree 18 Terra Tremit 19 Adam and Eve Subseries I.C: Cloisters Cross: Typological Cycles Box Folder Title 20 Cham [infelix] in literature 21 Cham in Art 22 Cham: Pictor in Carmine 23 Cham: Speculum Humanae Salvationis 24 Peter Riga – Aurora Versified Bible 25 Verse: Versified Genesis by Jean Evrart (Old French) late 12th C. 26 Peterborough Cathedral 27 Worcester, Eton College, 177. Bury St. Edmund retable (?) 28 Biblia Pauperum 29 Hildesheim Missal 30 Typological Cycles: Munich, Cim. 14159 31 Typological Cycles other than England post 12th C 32 Rusticus, Benedict, Biscop, Jarrow, Ingleheim & Maur 33 Paulinus of Nola 34 Typological in Liturgy 4 Subseries I.D: Cloisters Cross: Cross Titulus 1 Folder 9: Cross Titulus: “Pilate Replied…” 2 John19, 19-22 3 Munich MS, Clm. 13067 (Staatsbibl.) 4 Rex Confessorum 5 Pembroke Ms 72 Subseries I.E: Cloisters Cross: Theology Box Folder Title 6 Theology, General 7 They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced, Zachariah 12:10, John 19:37. 8 Plangent 9 Ponam Te Sicut Signaculum Haggai 2:24 10 Jeremiah 11:19 “Conteramus Eradamus Eum de Terra Viventium…” 11 Jeremiah 11:19 Ego Quasi Agnus – The Lamb 12 Joel 3:16 De Jerusalem Dabit Vocem… 13 Ezekial 3:25 “Fili Hominus Ecce…” 14 Sophonaiah 3:19 “Ego Interficiam Omnes…” 15 Vae Qui Potum Dat…Habbacus 2:15 16 Et Erit Vita Tua - Tertullian 17 Quare Rubru 18 Quare Rubru: Iconography of Christ in Wine-press 19 Quare Futuru 20 Exterminavenint Manus Meas et Pedes 21 Ascendam – Solomon 22 Viri Foederis Tui….Obbadiam 23 Oblatus Est Ipse Coluit – Isaiah 53 24 Numquid Dabo Primo Genitum – Micah 25 Omnes Prophetae Testimonium Permibent 26 Sicut Moyses Exaltavit Serpente in Deserto 27 Foderunt Manus Meas….David 28 Ero Mors Tua O More – Roses Subseries I.F: Cloisters Cross: Synagogue Box Folder Title 29 Synagogue, Miscellaneous Notes 30 Synagogue, in the liturgy-sequence 31 Synagogue, Bibliography 33 Synagogue Contra Judaeos, Paganos et Arianos – Lectio, Ordo Prophetarum 34 Synagogue: Mors Vita 35 Maledictus - Inscription 36 Piercing Lamb 37 Henry the Lion 5 1 Missal from Saint Just – Lyon 2 Eucharist 3 Pontifical of Paris (Metz Bibl.) 4 Noyon Missal 5 Missal of Saint Vanne – Verdun 6 Pontifucal of Reims (Rouen Bibl. Mun. 370) 7 Missal from Paris , (Bibl. Nat. lat 1112) 8 Missal from Paris , (Bibl.de L’Univ de Paris MS 177) 9 Other Missals 10 Missal of St.