SAINTE-CHAPELLE

PARIS
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SAINTE-CHAPELLE and its relics

AS DEPICTED IN

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Paris, Musee de Cluny - copy made in 1837 by M.B. from early 15 c Pontifical of Poitiers , owned by John Duke of Bedford then by Jean Jouvenel des Ursins, destroyed in 1871

Detail 
On the altar is the Head Reliquary of St Louis (now destroyed)
click here for the surviving fragments of cloisonné enamel

BNF lat. 3145, f.12

Hours of Jeanne de Navarre, St Louis carrying the Crown of Thorns - early 14 c

BNF lat. 8890, f.35

Missal of the Sainte Chapelle, Office for the feast of the relic - late 15 c

Chateauroux, BM. f.34v

Breviary of Paris - c 1470
Click here to link to the Crown of Thorns Relics
SAINTE-CHAPELLE 

AS DEPICTED IN

The Très Riches Heures
of Jean, Duc de Berry
(Chantilly, Musée Condé)

Detail
SAINTE 

CHAPELLE

IN LATER

ILLUSTRATION

View of the Royal Palace, Sainte-Chapelle on the right

General view of Palace and Sainte Chapelle in 1738 by Orazio Grevenbroeck

BNF, est. v 53g,t.V

Treasury of the documents, destroyed  18c

St Louis carrying the Crown of Thorns - 
W. Feuerstein, 19 c

Saint Germain-en-Laye church, Jacquand, 1868 - St Louis carrying the Crown of Thorns

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Prepared by Graham Whitlow -

OCTOBER 6, 1998