Reginald of Bar (bishop of Metz)
Reginald of Bar (Renaud de Bar, d. 1316) was
bishop of Metz
from 1302.
Reginald was the son of
Templars. Reginald fought against Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine
, then against the magistrates of Metz.
He was forced to retire in the messine campaign and died on 4 May 1316, apparently poisoned.[citation needed]
Liturgical manuscripts
Reginald de Bar is known to have owned six liturgical manuscripts all dating from the very beginning of the 14th century, probably between 1302 and 1305.[1] The manuscripts were probably gifts from his relations, including his sister, Marguerite de Bar, abbess of the Abbey of Saint-Maur de Verdun[2] and his mother, Jeanne de Toucy, whose arms figures many times in the margins alongside those of her son. All six manuscripts are designed to be used in church ceremonies by a bishop.
- Breviary for the Use of Verdun – Summer volume Archived 16 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine (BM Verdun ms. 107)[3]
- Breviary for the Use of Verdun – Winter volume (British Library, Yates Thompson ms. 8)[4]
- Missal for the Use of Verdun, revised for Metz Archived 16 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine (BM Verdun ms. 98)
- Pontifical for the Use of Metz – Part 1 (Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, ms. 298)
- Pontifical for the Use of Metz – Part 2 (Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic, ms. XXIIIC 120), 137 f.
- Ritual for the Use of Metz (BM Metz ms. 43), destroyed in 1944
These manuscripts, especially the two volume Breviary of Verdun, are renowned for their rich illuminations, blason, marginalia and historiated initials.
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Lion, from July, Breviary of Verdun, Winter, British Library -
Marginalia, Breviary of Verdun, Summer, BM. Verdun -
Combatants carrying their heads, Breviary of Verdun, Summer
References
- ^ "L'atelier de Mathilde et Goscelin Renaud de Bar et ses manuscrits". Mathildeetgoscelin.fr. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ Systems, eZ. "La Bibliothèque de Verdun, Par la Communauté de Communes de Verdun et la Ville de Verdun". Bibliotheques-discotheque-verdun.fr. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ^ Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques des départements, V (1879), p. 486-487 Base Enluminures (BM Verdun ms. 107)
- ^ probably begun in 1302, commissioned by his sister, the abbess of the abbey of St Maur, Verdun, or by his mother. Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941. Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898), no. 31 pp. 142–178. Patrick M. de Winter, 'Une réalisation exceptionnelle d'enlumineurs français et anglais vers 1300: le bréviaire de Renaud de Bar, évêque de Metz', in La Lorraine: études archéologiques (Actes du 103e congrès national des Sociétés savantes (Nancy-Metz, 1978), Section d'archaeologie et d'histoire de l'art) (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1980), pp. 27–62 (pp. 34, 36, 37, 38, 49 n. 27, figs. 9, 10, 13).
- Georges Poull, La Maison souveraine et ducale de Bar, 1994.
- Sharon Kay Davenport, Manuscripts illuminated for Renaud de Bar, Bishop of Metz (1303-1316) PhD University of London, Courtauld Institute 1984; PhD Diss. Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1989).
- Alison Stones, "Les manuscrits de Renaud de Bar", L’écrit et le livre peint en Lorraine, de Saint-Mihiel à Verdun (IXe-XVe siècles). Actes du colloque de Saint-Mihiel, 25-26 octobre 2010 (2014), 269–310.
External links
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- Renaud de Bar sur Saarländische Biografien
- Missel et bréviaire de Renaud de Bar sur le site de la bibliothèque de la Codecom de Verdun Archived 29 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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