Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily and Bishop Reginald of Bath
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1961
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Culture: English Date: after 1174; perhaps by 1177 Material: Gold Dimensions: 5.1 × 3.2 cm Inscribed: obverse, inner ring: de sanguine s(an)c (t)i.thome. m(arty)ris.de vestibu(s) suis sanguine suo tinctis; outer ring: de pellicia. de cilitio. de cuculla. de calciamento. et camisia (Of the blood of St. Thomas Martyr. Of his vestments stained with his blood; of the cloak, the belt, the hood, the shoe, the shirt); reverse: istud regine margarete siculor(um) tra(n)smittit presul rainaud(us) batonior(um) (Bishop Reginald of Bath hands this over to Queen Margaret of Sicily) Provenance: Pierro Tozzi Galleries, Inc., New York