THE ISLIP ROLL RE-EXAMINED. (11th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Payne, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Antiquaries journal. Volume 97(2017)
• Page Start: 231
• Page End: 260
• Publication Date: 2017-10-11
• Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 930.105
• DOI: 10.1017/S0003581517000245
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-5815

Abstract

Abstract : The mortuary roll of John Islip (1464–1532), Abbot of Westminster, is the finest example of its kind to survive in England. The drawings, possibly by Gerard Horenbout, afford the only views of the interior of Westminster Abbey before the Dissolution. The discovery of eighteenth-century copies of an unknown, coloured version of the roll provides important new evidence for both the circumstances of the production and the later history of both rolls. It also provides, for the first time, an authentic colour view of the interior of Westminster Abbey in the late medieval period, and new information on its decoration.