The Ancient Way of Life

~ Chalice.

Date: ca. 1230–1250

Place of origin: : Upper Rhineland, Germany

Culture: German

Medium: Silver, gilded silver, niello, and jewels.

~ Pair of Guardian Animals (Shishi to komainu).

Place of origin: Japan

Period: Kamakura(1185-1333)

Date: ca. 1250

Medium: Wood with traces of pigment.

~ Ring.

Place of origin: England

Date: ca. 1250-1300

Medium: Gold; blue sapphire, purple sapphires

~ Ring.

Place of origin: England or France

Date: ca. 1250-1300

Medium: Gold, engraved; sapphire.

~Aquamanile (Ewer).

Place of origin: Northern Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildeshiem (?)

Date: ca. 1250

Medium: Brass (copper alloy)

~ Leaf from the Morgan Picture Bible.

Culture: French

Place of origin: Northern France, France

Date: ca. 1250

Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment.

~ Sirens. Culture: English Place of origin: England, Europe Date: ca. 1250 - 1260 Medium: Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color and translucent washes on parchment.

~ Miniature Casket. Culture: French Date: ca. A.D. 1250–1300 Medium: Champlevé enamel on copper.

~ Chess Piece in the Form of a Knight. Date: ca. 1250 Place of origin: London (?), England Culture: British Medium: Walrus ivory

~ Enthroned Madonna and Child. Date: ca. 1250-1275 Period: Byzantine Place of origin: possibly from Constantinople Medium: Tempera on poplar panel.

~ The Resurrection of the dead. Place of origin: Limoges Date: ca. 1250 Medium: Champlevé enamel on copper.

~ A Hydrus; A Hydra. Place of origin: England Date: ca. 1250 - 1260 Medium: Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color and translucent washes on parchment.

~ Bishamonten. Place of origin: Japan Date: ca. 1250 Period: Kamakura period (1185-1333) Medium: Wood, crystal, traces of polychromy and gilding.

~ Elephant. Place of origin: Japan Period: Kamakura period, 1185-1333 Date: ca. 1250 Medium: Wood, metal, crystal, and pigments.

~ Decretum. Culture: French Period: Medieval (Gothic) Date: ca. 1200–50 Author of text Gratian, died no later than 1159

From the source: Several leaves pasted together to make a bookcover, laid on paper. Text is from Gratian’s Decretum of ca. 1140, including his Causa II, Q. viii, C. 57/58. Gratian’s Decretum (also known as Concordantia Discordantium Canonum) is a collection of papal letters and conciliar decrees, which became the most important law book of the 12th century. 1 column of text and 1 column of commentary are extant, 29 lines extant, all in Latin. Written in an early Gothic bookhand (commentary in Gothic cursive) in black ink with red rubrics. Later used with other leaves as a binding, with a Hebrew leaf pasted-down onto the binding’s spine. When the Hebrew leaf was removed, it left a mirror-image offset.