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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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>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: <a href="/goto?url=http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1771445~S1" target="_blank">http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1771445~S1 </a>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. <a href="/goto?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3258225" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/stable/3258225 </a>Longland, Sabrina. “ ‘Pilate Answered: What I Have Written I Have Written.’ ” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 26, no. 10 (June, 1968), pp. 410-429. <a href="/goto?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3258813" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/stable/3258813 </a>Longland, Sabrina. “A literary aspect of the Bury St. Edmunds cross.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 2 (1969) pp. 45-<a href="/goto?url=http://0-www.jstor.org.library.metmuseum.org/stable/1512586" target="_blank">74. </a><a href="/goto?url=http://0-www.jstor.org.library.metmuseum.org/stable/1512586" target="_blank">http://0-www.jstor.org.library.metmuseum.org/stable/1512586 </a>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. <a href="/goto?url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Cloisters_Cross_Its_Art_and_Meaning" target="_blank">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Cloisters_Cross_Its_Art_and_Meaning </a>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 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">1</li><li style="flex:1">1</li></ul>2345 Small Ivory Reliquary Cross Sale, 1966 Ivories Correspondence Cloisters Cross correspondence Laud Bible Correspondence Christ before Pilate correspondence 67 Sampson King John, correspondence Bury Exhibition 89 Cross monograph: Chapter Outline; Miscellaneous Quotations Cloisters Cross Inscriptions: letters and notes Things to do: Research Loose Papers: Correspondence, Research Notes, Etc. I Loose Papers: Correspondence, Research Notes, Etc. II Ivory Reliquary Crosses 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 Notes for Urbana Altar Cross Notes Bury St Edmunds, General & Bibliography Bury Manuscript. M. Cotton Vitellius A XII (Fol 65 R) (Xeroxes from Photo) 223456789 Bury Manuscript. Harley 1585 Bury Manuscript. Harley 2278 Bury Manuscript. Harley Roll Y6 “Guthlac Roll” Bury Manuscript. Landsdowne 381 (Psalter of Henry the Lion) Bury Manuscript Landsdowne 383 (Shaftsbury Psalter) Bury Manuscripts in files: cross references Paleography 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 K.L. Bibliography: Liturgy Dugdale Kaliscz Jocelyn Saxl Cross Inscriptions Crusades, especially the Third St. Augustine Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons Mosan Art, notes Grodecki in “L’Art Mosan”: “Vitraux de Chalons-sur-Marne” Inventories [Miscellaneous Notes] Subseries I.B: Cloisters Cross: Iconography Box Folder Title <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">1</li><li style="flex:1">Iconography </li></ul>323 Cross symbolism Poenitentia <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">Centaurs </li></ul>5678 Alexander the Great Ascent Palm Sunday Feasts of the Cross Palm Sunday Ephraem the Syrian Jews <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">9</li><li style="flex:1">Jews Migne Index </li></ul>Disputes Disputes in Art Ezechiel: rotam in media rotae Wolves Tegernsee Antichrist Walters Cross Chalons-sur-Marne Window Tree of Life – Palm Tree Terra Tremit 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">19 </li><li style="flex:1">Adam and Eve </li></ul>Subseries I.C: Cloisters Cross: Typological Cycles Box Folder Title <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">20 </li><li style="flex:1">Cham [infelix] in literature </li></ul>21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Cham in Art Cham: Pictor in Carmine Cham: Speculum Humanae Salvationis Peter Riga – Aurora Versified Bible Verse: Versified Genesis by Jean Evrart (Old French) late 12th C. Peterborough Cathedral Worcester, Eton College, 177. Bury St. Edmund retable (?) Biblia Pauperum Hildesheim Missal Typological Cycles: Munich, Cim. 14159 Typological Cycles other than England post 12th C Rusticus, Benedict, Biscop, Jarrow, Ingleheim & Maur Paulinus of Nola Typological in Liturgy <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">Subseries I.D: Cloisters Cross: Cross Titulus </li></ul>1234Folder 9: Cross Titulus: “Pilate Replied…” John19, 19-22 Munich MS, Clm. 13067 (Staatsbibl.) Rex Confessorum <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">5</li><li style="flex:1">Pembroke Ms 72 </li></ul>Subseries I.E: Cloisters Cross: Theology Box Folder Title 67 Theology, General They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced, Zachariah 12:10, John 19:37. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">8</li><li style="flex:1">Plangent </li></ul>910 Ponam Te Sicut Signaculum Haggai 2:24 Jeremiah 11:19 “Conteramus Eradamus Eum de Terra Viventium…” <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">11 </li><li style="flex:1">Jeremiah 11:19 Ego Quasi Agnus – The Lamb </li></ul>12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Joel 3:16 De Jerusalem Dabit Vocem… Ezekial 3:25 “Fili Hominus Ecce…” Sophonaiah 3:19 “Ego Interficiam Omnes…” Vae Qui Potum Dat…Habbacus 2:15 Et Erit Vita Tua - Tertullian Quare Rubru Quare Rubru: Iconography of Christ in Wine-press Quare Futuru Exterminavenint Manus Meas et Pedes Ascendam – Solomon Viri Foederis Tui….Obbadiam Oblatus Est Ipse Coluit – Isaiah 53 Numquid Dabo Primo Genitum – Micah Omnes Prophetae Testimonium Permibent Sicut Moyses Exaltavit Serpente in Deserto Foderunt Manus Meas….David Ero Mors Tua O More – Roses Subseries I.F: Cloisters Cross: Synagogue Box Folder Title 29 30 31 33 34 35 36 Synagogue, Miscellaneous Notes Synagogue, in the liturgy-sequence Synagogue, Bibliography Synagogue Contra Judaeos, Paganos et Arianos – Lectio, Ordo Prophetarum Synagogue: Mors Vita Maledictus - Inscription Piercing Lamb 37 1 Henry the Lion Missal from Saint Just – Lyon Eucharist 52<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">3</li><li style="flex:1">Pontifical of Paris (Metz Bibl.) </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">Noyon Missal </li></ul>5678 Missal of Saint Vanne – Verdun Pontifucal of Reims (Rouen Bibl. Mun. 370) Missal from Paris , (Bibl. Nat. lat 1112) Missal from Paris , (Bibl.de L’Univ de Paris MS 177) <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Other Missals </li><li style="flex:1">9</li></ul>10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Missal of St. Stephen’s, Dijon Missal of Henry of Chichester , John Rylands, MS 24 Moralised Bible from Toledo Spentrup Gerona Apocalypse Verdun, MS 121 Copy 2 De Altercations Ecclesiae et Synagogae dialogue. P.L.42, col. 1131 Lower Saxon Material Laon Missal – Synagogue/Preface of Mass Crusades, especially The Third Mantua Missal Vatican Ms, Barberini XII Synagogue Alfred Weis Das Munster, 1947-1948 London V & A Kennet Cibonium Photos London V & A Warwick Cibonium Photos Schluss Stammheim Missal Photos Treves Ms 900, datwed 1108 Vatican Coc Ressanensis 181 Verdun Ms 121 12th C Homiliary Missal of St Vanne, Verdun Winchester Bible Photos Noyon Missal Ghent Bibliotheque Liber Floridas Lewis Edwards, “Some English Examples of the Medieval Representation of Church and Synagogue” 34 35 M. Schlauch, “Allegory of Church and Synagogue” de Altercatione Ecclesiae et Synagogue Dialogus: later imitations and influence Subseries I.G: Related Objects Box Folder Title Other Ivories 12345678 Anvers; Musee Vandenbergh Bamberg Cathedral Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum Bordeaux Cathedral Stoclet Collection, Brussels Canosa Cathedral, Puglia Emil Hannover Collection, Copenhagen 6<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">9</li><li style="flex:1">Gunhild Cross, Copenhagen Museum </li></ul>Copenhagen: Gunhild Cross Florence Bargello Herlufsholm Church, Denmark John Hunt Ivories Leon, San Marcos, Museo Crucifix from Carrizo Liege or Brussels?, M. Vermeylan Collection London: Guildhall London: Victoria and Albert, Ascension Relief London: Victoria and Albert, Deposition Relief London: Victoria and Albert, Madonna London: Victoria and Albert, St Nicholas Crosier London: Victoria and Albert, Soltikoff Crucifix Madrid: Museo Arqueologico, Fernando/Sancha Cross Maihingen: Sammlung Ottingen Wallerstein Metropolitan Museum of Art 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Paris: Louvre, Crucufix Folder : Salzburg: Stift Nonnburg Illuminated Manuscripts Manuscripts, General B.M. Add. 11283 Bestiary 27 28 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">29 </li><li style="flex:1">B.M.Add 28108-07 Stavelot Bible </li></ul>30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 B.M. Arundel 157 B.M. Caligula A VIII B.M. Book for Jessie McNab Cotton Caligula A VII Cotton Nero C IV Henry of Blois Psalter Cotton Nero C IV Photos Glasgow: Hunterian Museum The York Psalter Photos The Lambeth Bible Oxford: Bodleian Auct. D.2.6 Oxford: Bodleian Auct. D.3.14 Oxford: Bodleian Bodley 271 Oxford: Bodleian Ms Gough Lit 2 Laud Bible Description Oxford: Corpus Christie Ms 2 Paris: St Germaine Maueris Bible Photos Rouen Ms 370 John Rylands Ms 24 Pierpont Morgan Library Ms 736 Camarillo, California Doheny Library Zacarias Chrysopolitanus Cambridge C.C.C. Ms 2 Bible XII C Bury Bible Cambridge Pembroke College Ms 16 Cambridge Pembroke College Ms 54 Cambridge Pembroke College Ms 64 Cambridge Pembroke College Ms 72 Cambridge Trinity Ms 200 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 Cambridge Trinity B 1.16 Cambridge Trinity Ms B 5.4 (Psalter of Hubert of Bosham) Cambridge University Library Ee IV 33 Chester Beatty Ms 22 (Walsingham Bible) Copenhagen Psalter Dover Bible Dublin Trinity College Ms A 1.1.53 Winchcombe Psalter Durham Cath Lib Ms A II 1 Bishop Pudsey’s Bible Ex-Dyson Perrins Ms 1 English 12th & 15th C. Connected with, or from, Bury St Edmunds: little Robert Min 64 65 Ex-Dyson Perrins Ms 117 Peter the Lombard. Comentarii in Paalmos, written 1166 from Bremen Lists: Latin Incipits Metalwork 123456Bury St E: Moyse’s Hall Sampson Crosier Ring Folder : Copenhagen National Museum, Two Crosses Engelberg Cross Freiburg Crucifix Kremsmunster Arbey Flabellum London V & A, Warwick and Kent Cibona notes 778 Luneburg, St Michaeliskloster, Reliquary Cross Paris, Musee de Cluny Bronze Gilt Cross <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">9</li><li style="flex:1">Saalburn, Copper Gilt Cross </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">10 </li><li style="flex:1">Vatican, St Peters, True Cross Reliquary </li></ul>Sculpture 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sculpture, Lead; Lead Font, Walton-on-the-Mill, Photos Sculpture, Stone; Durham Cathedral, Photos Sculpture, Stone; English, Misc. Photos Sculpture, Wood; Soest, Photos and Notes Sculpture; Random Notes H Kraus “A Reinterpretation of the ‘Risen Dead’ in Beaulieu Tympanum” with correspondence to and from T. Hoving <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">[Photos of 3 Unidentified Stone Figures] </li><li style="flex:1">17 </li></ul>Subseries I.H: Bibliographies and Illustrations Box Folder Title 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Bibliography: General Bibliography Cards, Cloisters Cross History Bibliography “Treasury of Art in Great Britain,” Vol II Bibliography: Art, General Bibliography: Hymns, Verse Bibliography: Iconography Bibliography: Theology 7Bibliography: Typology 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Bibliography: Style and Shape Medieval Pattern Books Miscellaneous Christ before High Priest Photographs Cross: Spare Photographs K-L Lists, Misc Monument List Detail Comps Style Notes Bibliography Cards, Various Medieval topics Subseries I.i: Longland Cloisters Cross Manuscripts Box Folder Title 123“A Literary Aspect of the Bury St Edmunds Cross” manuscript and notes Unspecified MSS and notes on the Cloisters Cross I Unspecified MSS and notes on the Cloisters Cross II 8Subseries I.J: Longland Professional Papers and Miscellanea Box Folder Title 45 Curriculum Vitae; Correspondence and Travel Info., 1968 Medieval Club of N.Y. 867 T. Hoving Cleveland Lecture Slide List Trinity College Slide List 89 Photo of Armour for Walter Urgerer Byzantine Weights, Letters <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">10 </li><li style="flex:1">NY Times article on T. Hoving, 1/1/67 </li></ul>SERIES II: KATHERINE SERRELL RORIMER PAPERS Subseries IIA: Previously Published Cloisters Cross Material (non-KSR) Box Folder Title 123 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, June 1964. Cloisters Cross issue with KSR annotations. Black and white photo prints of James Rorimer, Thomas Hoving, and an unidentified man. Metropolitan Museum press releases re. Cloisters Cross (August 1976) and King of the Confessors (Oct. 26, 1981). 945 Reviews of King of the Confessors or profiles of Thomas Hoving, 1981-99. Longland, Sabrina. “The ‘Bury St. Edmonds Cross’ It’s Exceptional Place in English Twelfth Century Art.” Connoisseur 172, no. 693 (Nov., 1969) Parker, Elizabeth. “The Missing Base Plaque of the Bury St. Edmonds Cross.” Gesta 14, no.1 (1975) Parker, Elizabeth. “Master Hugo as Sculptor: A Source for the Style of the Bury Bible.” Gesta 20, no.1 (1981) 6Abulafia, Sapir. “An Attempt by Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster, at Rational Argument in the Jewish-Christian Debate” Studia Monastica v.26, f.1 (1984). 789Diebold, William. “Some Problems in the Bury St. Edmunds Cross” January 1987 Jones, Bernice. “A Reconsideration of the Cloisters Ivory Cross with the Caiaphas Plaque Restored at its Base.” Gesta 30:1 (1991), some annotations. Sister M. Kilian. “Metaphysical Concepts Underlying a Twelfth-Century Cistercian Milieu Compared with Other Environmental Concepts from Other Times and Places” (lecture and notes by Sister M. Kilian from the 1993 Conference on Cistercian Studies). 10 “Name of Israel’s Last King Surfaces in a Private Collection,” Biblical Archaeology Review, Nov./Dec., 1995. 11 12 “Cross inscriptions translated by Mersmann[?]” – Envelope dated April 1996 Davis, Truman, MD, MS. “The Crucifixion of Jesus: The Passion of Christ from a Medical Point of View.” 13 Decker, Andrew. “Real and Fake in the ‘Zagreb Louvre’.” ARTnews Summer, 1987. Subseries IIB: KSR research Notes and Correspondence Box Folder Title 14 15 16 Photographs of the Cloister Cross (some with annotation on back) Cross, Latin text translations Correspondence between KSR and Joseph Noble, Director of the Museum of the City of New York, refuting Hoving claims re. Mona Lisa, May, 1983. Correspondence, primarily regarding research and publication of refutations of “King of Confessors”: 917 18 19 20 21 123451980-81 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 10 1990-2000 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">6</li><li style="flex:1">KSR misc. research notes on the Cross </li></ul>78“Useful odds and ends to save re Armageddon and King of Confessors” 1984 “K of C notes, quotes, facts, ideas” 9KSR comments on the Cloisters, including a copy of John D. Rockefeller’s statements at the May 10, 1938 opening <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">KSR biographical notes </li><li style="flex:1">10 </li></ul>Subseries IIC: KSR Manuscript Drafts Box Folder Title <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">11 </li><li style="flex:1">Drafts of introductions and prefaces </li></ul>Full text responses to Hoving’s King of the Confessors: 12 1234“The Serpent and the Voice” Full text draft dated 1986, annotated. Full text draft dated April 25, 1990. Full text draft dated November 25, 1990, annotated. Full text draft dated August, 1993, annotated. Full text draft dated February 17, 1995.

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