Church Altar Depictions
Reference code
LOC/03/10/01
Title
Church Altar Depictions
Date
c 1930s
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Hardback notebook containing a number of printed images depicting atars, from illuminated manuscripts as well as medieval paintings and books of hours, with descriptions of the elements visible for some of them. They focus on continental examples, predominately French and German, and include a pagan altar as depicted in a copy of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei.
Creator
Loddiges, Conrad (c 1883-1949), antiquary and surgeon
Previous reference number(s)
MS/958/3/10/1