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| Keywords: Alexis Master - Thieves Breaking into the Burial Church of St. Edmund - Google Art Project.jpg One of the earliest illustrated biographies of an English saint this lavish volume was a testimonial to patron saint and abbey alike Most miniatures are based on the passion text of Abbo of Fleury 945 “1004 ; the posthumous miracles depend on Osbert of Clare's text composed for Anselm shortly before this manuscript was made In this image eight thieves are miraculously paralyzed when they attempt to break into Edmund's burial place The miniatures are attributed to the Alexis Master founder of the St Albans school Named after his St Alexis cycle in the St Albans Psalter he skillfully combined Anglo-Saxon Ottonian and Byzantine influences to create England's earliest Romanesque style commons date ca 1130 commons medium commons dimensions w187 x h274 mm commons institution commons location commons references MS M 736 fol 18v commons object_history Purchased by J P Morgan Jr 1927 commons exhibition_history commons credit_line commons inscriptions commons notes commons accession_number commons source commons permission commons other_versions commons zoom core title Thieves Breaking into the Burial Church of St Edmund core creator Alexis Master core date dateCreated 1130 core location England core format w187 x h274 mm core type Abbo of Fleury and Osbert of Clare Life Passion and Miracles of St Edmund in Latin Illuminated by the Alexis Master and assistant England Abbey of Bury St Edmunds ca 1130 c-089916f9 customtext credit_line Purchased by J P Morgan Jr 1927 google display_date 1130 google is_artproject TRUE google is_gigapixel FALSE google is_secured TRUE google partner/id 00000000089916f9 google partner/name The Morgan Library Museum google picasa_token k56oekWZN_Ke5gqKnDmDRAokKSo special url_id ggGIHBxX8J4Zjw special partner/name_no_lang The Morgan Library Museum PD-old-100-1923 Google Art Project works by Alexis Master Pierpont Morgan Library manuscripts Thieves in art Construction of buildings in medieval miniature Alexis Master 12th-century illuminated manuscripts Abbo of Fleury Miniatures of Edmund the Martyr | ||||
