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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MBS/1/OXF/6/1
TitleJohn Spycer, in civil dress and wife Alys, 1437
Extent1 item
Date1952
DescriptionRubbing of brass effigies kneeling under bracket (BVM and child under canopy missing); foot inscription in English recording their benefactions to the church; fragment of marginal inscription in Latin; each figure with scrolls inscribed in English. Rubbing made 21 Jun 1952.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionPaper, folded; staining and small tears; old repairs on reverse with pressure sensitive tape. On the same sheet is a rubbing of a fragment of unidentified marginal inscription.
Dimensions: 264 x 76 cms
Custodial HistoryFormerly in the collection of Malcolm Norris; MBS 5415
Publication NoteThis brass is cited and described in Mill Stephenson, 'A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles' (1964): Burford I
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