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The top bears a cross which has been couched on in open gilt braid. A burse is a wallet-like container used during Christian Mass in order to carry the corporal (linen cloth) to the altar. The sacraments (wine and bread) were then laid on corporal on the altar. As a result, the corporal must be treated with reverence, hence the protective burse.\r\n\r\nIn Roman form the burse is usually made of two pieces of cardboard about twenty-five centimetres (or ten inches) square, bound together at three edges, leaving the fourth open to receive the corporal. One outer side of the burse is of the same material and colour as the vestments (priestly garments) with which it is used; the rest is lined with linen or silk. The use of the burse dates back to the 12th century. \r\n\r\nThe red velvet ground of Italian origin is an ideal foil for the high quality English embroidery (called <i>opus anglicanum</i>, the Latin for English work), which was sought after throughout Europe and bought by princes and popes in the Middle Ages. Items like this one illustrate the sumptuous and costly textiles which were favoured by the Christian church, often given by wealthy donors, making a conspicuous show of both earthly wealth and spiritual devotion.","physicalDescription":"Both the obverse and the reverse of the burse is entirely made of crimson velvet, which pattern is achieved by covering the areas that would otherwise be left voided (clear of the pile warp, with the ground weave clearly visible) with supplementary (brocading) gilt-metal weft. The main motifs are additionaly enriched and enchanced by creating the boucle loops with the supplementary (brocading) weft. The metal braids used for the cross and the trimmings date from the late 17th or early 18th century. The burse is a part of the set of vestments that comprises of the chasuble, stole, maniple and the chalice veil; LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN.1, 1A, 1B, 1C","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"velvet","id":"x36821"},{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"},{"text":"silver-gilt thread","id":"x30492"}],"techniques":[{"text":"brocading","id":"AAT53648"},{"text":"couching","id":"AAT53654"},{"text":"weaving","id":"AAT53642"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Velvet brocaded with silver-gilt thread","categories":[{"text":"Ceremonial objects","id":"THES48981"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Embroidery","id":"THES48960"}],"styles":[{"text":"renaissance","id":"AAT21140"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2009CE2357","2009CE2405"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"50D","id":"THES49096"},"free":"","case":"CA1","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Burse","id":"AAT197322"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"velvet"},{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"whole object; possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"c1450","earliest":"1445-01-01","latest":"1454-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN.1","id":"O126410"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN.1A","id":"O126422"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN.1B","id":"O126414"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN.1C","id":"O126426"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"Lent by the Dominicans of the English Province","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"23","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"23","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"On long term loan to the museum from The English Dominican Province, St. Dominic's Priory, Haverstock Hill, London, NW5; as of 1977.\r\n\r\nThe burse is part of a set made of the same velvet, consisting of chasuble, stole, maniple and chalice veil.  The chasuble is decorated with embroidered orphreys, and the chalice veil is decorated with gold and silver bobbin lace of the 17th century.\n\nHistorical significance: This particular burse is still connected with other parts of the set to which it belonged: chasuble, maniple, stole and chalice veil. The embroidery is of extremely high quality.","historicalContext":"The burse is the receptacle in which the folded corporal is carried to and from the altar, for reasons of convenience and reverence. The corporal being a square white linen cloth,  upon which the Sacred Host and chalice are placed during the celebration of Mass.\r\n\r\nIn Roman form the burse is ordinarily made of two pieces of cardboard about twenty-five centimetres (or ten inches) square, bound together at three edges, leaving the fourth open to receive the corporal. One outer side of the burse is of the same material and colour as the vestments with which it is used; the rest is lined with linen or silk. The use of the burse dates from the 12th century. When the corporal reached small dimensions, it was carried to the altar, sometimes in the missal, sometimes in a special receptacle, a box or bag, which finally took the present form of burse. Just when this custom began cannot be determined. <i>Chronicon vetus rerum Moguntinarum</i> (1140-1251) mentions a precious corporal-case; this may have been, however, only a box for the continual safe-keeping of the corporal. St. Charles Borromeo describes a <i>sacculus corporali</i> distinct from the case in which corporals were preserved (<i>Acta Mediolan</i>, 1683, I, 524). From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries the use of the burse spread, and in 1692 it was universally illicit to celebrate Mass without one (<i>Decreta S.R.C</i>, 1866, ad 2m).","briefDescription":"Burse, lined on both sides with crimson silk velvet, brocaded with gilt metal threads, c1450, Italian","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"King, Donald. <i>Opus Anglicanum : English medieval embroidery</i>, London, Arts Council,1963","id":"AUTH354455"},"details":"no. 117","free":""}],"production":"Middle of the fifteenth century","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"scrolling foliage","id":"AAT165387"},{"text":"cross","id":"x31528"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN.1D"],"accessionNumberNum":"1","accessionNumberPrefix":"LOAN:ENG.DOMINICAN","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN8178","2019LT6272","2019LW1716"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-07","recordCreationDate":"2005-12-01","availableToBook":false}}