Identifier: stainedglassofmi00arno (find matches)
Title: Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Arnold, Hugh Saint, Lawrence Bradford, 1885-
Subjects: Glass painting and staining -- England Glass painting and staining -- France Art, Medieval
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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ered with an even coat of enamel,the pattern is scratched out clear with the pointof a stick or a brush handle. Plates XVI., XX.,XXI. are typical examples, and show in detail thekind of pattern that was used. It is very rarely that we find anything of thekind in the previous period. There is, as wehave seen, an isolated and early example of it atCanterbury, where a rather paler, poorer blue hasbeen used than in the other windows, but there it 160 STAINED GLASS is more delicate than in the fourteenth century,the pattern being scratched out of a very thinsemi-transparent mat of enamel; and it is foundtoo in some late thirteenth century windows inSt. Urbain at Troyes, but in fourteenth centurywork it is frequently met with even at the begin-ning of the period, and by the end of the firstquarter of the century it is the rule, and remainsso throughout the succeeding century as well. IX EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS IN ENGLAND (MERTON COLLEGE AND EXETER) PLATE XXVIIIBORDERS, FROM PLATE XXV
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IX EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS IN ENGLAND (MERTON COLLEGE AND EXETER) The windows in the chapel of Merton College,Oxford, are perhaps the earliest in which thedesign of the Second Period has taken a definiteand typical form. Antony a Wood, in his cata-logue of Fellows, says that the donor, Henry de•Mamesfield or Mannesfield, whose portrait is inthe windows, caused them to be made in 1283,but in view of an order in the Bursars Rolls of1292 for stone for building these windows, thisdate must be rejected. Antony a Woods state-ment elsewhere that the whole chapel was pulleddown and rebuilt in 1424 shows he is not altogetherto be relied on. The presence of the fleur-de-liswith the castle of Castile in some of the borders 153 20 wiudow. 154 STAINED GLASS makes it probable^ that they were done afterEdward I.s second marriage with Margaret ofFrance in 1299, while the arms of an Heir-Apparent as well as of a King of England inthe east window makes it certain that they wereexecuted while E

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