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A note on the Rheims Resurrection ‘reliquary’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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The ‘reliquary’ of the Resurrection which Henri II of France gave to the cathedral of Rheims on his coronation in 1547 still survives. It was long considered to have been made for that occasion, but recently M. Pierre Verlet has recognized both it and the ‘Nef de Sainte Ursule’, given to the cathedral by the same donor, as being works of earlier date furbished up for the occasion. The whole of the Resurrection ‘reliquary’, indeed, is late medieval except for the initials and crescent devices which Henri II caused to be added to it.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1955

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