COLLECTION NAME:
R. H. C. Davis Notebooks Collection
Record
Identifier:
exws_RHCDavis_b1nb12
Filename:
exws_RHCDavis_b1nb12.tif
Title:
R. H. C. Davis Notebook 12
Title Alternative:
Volume XI
Creator:
Davis, R. H. C. (Ralph Henry Carless), 1918-1991
Date:
1938-1939; 1945-1946
Description:
R. H. C. Davis's notebook surveying the archaeological and architectural features of churches and castles throughout parts of Europe. Davis's title from the cover reads: "Volume XI. Foreign Travels. 1938-9. Provence, N. Italy; N and NE France and Stuttgart, and more distant English Travels 1945-6; esp. in Wiltshire." The entries were recorded in two phases, 1935-1939 and 1945-1946, though some entries have multiple later dates when Davis revisited the sites. Organized by date, entries are written on the front of the page with corrections or later additions added on the back. Some entries begin with a chronological list of dates starting with when the structure was raised, and include notable events such as when sections of the building was completed, when money was borrowed and repaid, and when reconstructions or restorations were made. The chronology is followed by a summary of architectural elements based on observations, questions and research. Some entries feature illustrations or notes on scrap paper. Many entries include notes from other researcher's published works. The major theme of the entries is Davis's research into the origins of certain architectural features, a critical look at other researcher's conclusions, his own conclusions and impressions, parallel features from other buildings, the uses and functions and conditions of certain features, and historical contexts. At the end of the notebook is loose material including a handwritten letter, newspaper clipping. Entries are predominately written in English with some inscriptions copied from other sources in Latin.
Contents:
Chronology of some Italian Churches; Abbey of Vezelay, Cluniac, (Yonne France); S Benigne Dijn (now the cathedral), Burgundy; Avignon, Palace of the Popes; Fort St. Andre, Villeneuve du Pape; Roman Remains in Provence; Charterhouse at Villeneauve du Papes; Arles Musee Lapidaire; Arles Le Alyscamps and the Church of St. Honorat; Church of St. Trophime, Arles; Abbey of Montajour (Provence); S. Ambrogio Milan (Lombardy); Milan Cathedral; Verona Cathedral; Church of St. Zeno, Verona (Lombardy); Chapel of the Annunciation called the arena [Madonna of the] Padua (Lombardy); St. Mark's, Venice; Church of St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice); Some types of Italian Campanili; S. Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna; San Vitale, Ravenna; Mausoleum of galla Placidia, Ravenna; the Archivescovado (Archbishop's palace), Ravenna; S. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna; the Ursian or Orthodox Baptistery, Ravenna; S. Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna; S. Francesco, Ravenna (formerly S. Pier Maggiore); Mausoleum of Theodoric (Ravenna); St. Maria in Porto Fuori, Ravenna; the Baptistery of the Cathedral, Florence; Gothic Churches of Florence; Church of St. Vulfran, Abbeville; Amiens Cathedral; Church of S. Germain (Amiens); Beauvais Cathedral; Church of St. Etienne, Beauvais; Laon Cathedral (Addenda); Church of St. Martin, Laon; Abbey Church of St. Remy, Rheims; Rheims Cathedral; Chalons-Sur-Marne, the Cathedral; Church of Notre Dame, Chalons-Sur-Marne; Mason Marks abroad; Toul Cathedral; Church of St. Gengoult (Toul); Strasbourg Cathedral; Denkendorf Abbey (nr Esslingen), Wurttemberg; Development of English Illumination in the Twelfth Century by F. Wormald in The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1943 (3rd series, vol VIII, pp. 31-49); Anglo-Saxon Architecture Chronology; Worth Parish Church; Scandinavian Influences on Saxon Art; Salisbury Cathedral (Wilts); Perpendicular Tracery; Furness Abbey (Lancs); Cartmel Priory (Lancs); Stonehenge (Wilts); The British Museum, Early Mediaeval Art; St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury (Wilts); Britford Church, nr. Salisbury (Wilts); St. Martin's Church, Salisbury (Wilts); St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury; St. Mary's Church, Devizes (Wilts); Devizes, St. John; Bromham Church (Wilts); Bishop's Canning Church (Wilts); Index; General Books Consulted (addenda to lists in other volumes); Index of Places for Volume XI including index of general notes (continued on page 78).
Illustration Description:
The notebook opens with a photograph of Vezelay (Burgundy) by J. Roubier. The illustrations through include: the gothic choir and a tympanum of a Paris church; capital in the plain crypt of S. Benigne Dijon; diagrams illustrating the difficulty of planning a Roman Amphitheatre; an intersection of vaults at Abbey of Montmajour; top story Campanile; floor plan and a base at Church of St. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice); a Florentine campanite; a hand-drawn map of sites around a Roman town near S. Vitale; cornice at the Mausoleum of Theodric (Ravenna); chancels, bases and window tracery at Church of St. Vulfran (Abbeville); intersecting mouldings and a section of buttresses at Amiens, Church of St. Germain; archlets; bases and diagram of window placements and half of triforium window from nave at Beauvais Cathedral; plan of vault and abaci at Church of St. Etienne (Beauvais); comparison of bases and a section of western bays in the nave at Abbey Church of St. Remy (Rheims); window tracery at Rheims Cathedral; a plan of the statues of the West Portal (of Reims Cathedral) taken from a publication by Patrick Demouy; a rough ground plan of two chapels of chevet and the elevation of [unreadable text] and triforium at the Church of Notre Dame, Chalons-sur-Marne; bases, pier of nave, tracery at Toul Cathedral; tracery at the Church of St. Gengoult (Toul); window tracery and bases at Strasbourg Cathedral; recumbent figure from F. Wormald's publication "Development of English Illumination..."; a respond in North Transcept, the ground plan, two windows in north side of nave, and a chancel arch with a figure at the Worth Parish Church (Sussex); a foliage ornament in the shape of a "Jellinge beats" and a "Ringerike leaf" from "Scandinavian Influences on Saxon Art"; three front exteriors for comparison and include Salisbury, Peterborough and Wells Cathedrals; Inforium and capitals at Salisbury Cathedral; bases and trefoil arches in north transept of Furness Abbey; Perp. tower, capital of nook-shaft, chevron patterning, a terminal, decoration in arcade of Chartmel Priory; the color-coded layout of a circular site, Stonehenge, on onion skin paper; tracery, piers, bases, stringcourses, and capitals at St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury; vine scroll of pilaster of arch at Britford Church (near Salisbury); tracery, arches, piers bases at St. Martin's Church (Salisbury); tracery, responds, capitals, bases, and piers at St. Thomas's Church (Salisbury); piers, arches, bases, capitals, tracery, chancel designs, crenellations at St. Mary's Church (Devizes); tracery, mullion, window mouldings, capitals, base, circular shaft beneath respond at Bromham Church; and window tracery and chancel detail at Bishop's Canning Church. Mason Marks: Palace of the Popes (Avignon), Fort St. Andre (Villeneuve du Paps), Charterhouse at Villeneauve du Papes, St. Thomas's Church (Salisbury), Abbey of Montemajour; Rheims Cathedral; "Masons' Marks Abroad" from Anton Springer Handbuch fur Kunstgeschichte (Leipzig, 1909), Volume II; Furness Abbey; St. Edmund's Church (Salisbury); St. Thomas's Church (Salisbury); St. Mary's Church (Devizes); and St. John's (Devizes).
Subject:
Architecture--Research
Subject:
Architecture--History
Subject:
Architecture, Gothic
Subject:
Mausoleums
Subject:
Architectural decorations & ornaments
Subject:
Historic buildings
Subject:
Banker marks
Buildings Identified:
Vezelay (Abbey)
Buildings Identified:
Pont du Gard (France)
Buildings Identified:
Chartreuse du Val de benediction
Buildings Identified:
Musees d'Arles
Buildings Identified:
Eglise Saint-Honorat (Arles, France)
Buildings Identified:
Cloitre Saint-Trophime (Arles, France)
Buildings Identified:
Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Montmajour (France)
Buildings Identified:
Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio (Milan, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Duomo di Milano
Buildings Identified:
Cattedrale di Verona
Buildings Identified:
San Zeno Maggiore (Church : Verona, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Saint-Benigne (Church : Dijon, France)
Buildings Identified:
Cappella degli Scrovegni nell'Arena (Padua, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
S. Apollinare in Classe (Basilica : Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
S. Vitale di Reno (Church : San Vitale di Reno, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Palazzo arcivescovile di Ravenna (Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
S. Apollinare nuovo (Basilica : Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Battistero Neoniano (Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
San Giovanni Evangelista (Church : Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Palace of the Popes (Avignon, France)
Buildings Identified:
Basilica of San Francesco (Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Basilica di Santa Maria in Porto (Ravenna, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence, Italy)
Buildings Identified:
Collegiate Church of Saint-Vulfran (Abbeville, France)
Buildings Identified:
Cathedrale d'Amiens
Buildings Identified:
Cathedrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
Buildings Identified:
Eglise Saint-Etienne de Beauvais
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Cathedrale de Laon
Buildings Identified:
Eglise Saint-Martin (Laon, France)
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Saint-Remi de Reims (Church)
Buildings Identified:
Theatre Antique d'Orange
Buildings Identified:
Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral)
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Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Chalons (France)
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Notre-Dame-en-Vaux (Church : Chalons-en-Champagne, France)
Buildings Identified:
Cathedrale Saint-Etienne (Toul, France)
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Cathedrale de Strasbourg
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Denkendorf Abbey (Wurttemburg, Germany)
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Mausoleum of Theodoric (Ravenna, Italy)
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St Nicholas' Church (Worth , England)
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Salisbury Cathedral
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Furness Abbey
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Musee Lapidaire (Avignon, France)
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Cartmel Priory (Cartmel, England)
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Stonehenge (England)
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St. Edmund's Parish (Wiltshire, England)
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St. Peter (Church : Briford, Salisbury, England)
Buildings Identified:
Church of St. Martin (Salisbury, Wiltshire, England)
Buildings Identified:
St Thomas's Church (Salisbury, Wiltshire, England)
Buildings Identified:
St. Mary (Church : Devizes, England)
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St. John the Baptist (Church : Devizes, England)
Buildings Identified:
Church of St. Nicholas (Bromham, Wiltshire, England)
Buildings Identified:
St Mary the Virgin (Bishops Canning, Wiltshire, England)
Buildings Identified:
Arenes d'Arles (France)
Buildings Identified:
Eglise Saint-Germain (Amiens, France)
Buildings Identified:
Collegiate Church of St. Gengoult (Toul, France)
Buildings Identified:
Necropole Les Alyscamps (Arles, France)
Buildings Identified:
Arenes de Nimes (France)
Buildings Identified:
Maison Carree (Nimes, France)
Places Identified:
Provence (France)
Places Identified:
Lombardy (Italy)
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Venice (Italy)
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Ravenna (Italy)
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Florence (Italy)
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Reims (France)
Places Identified:
Wiltshire (England)
People Identified:
Wormald, Francis
People Identified:
Demouy, Patrick, 1951-
Keywords:
notebooks; Diaries; Travel; Illustrations; fieldwork (research); Pamphlets; Research; Archaeological sites
Collection:
R. H. C. Davis Notebooks Collection
Location:
Europe
Time Period:
1930 - 1939
Time Period:
1940 - 1949
Language:
eng; lat
Source:
R. H. C. Davis Collection (02-exws_davis), Notebook 12, "Volume XI", Box 1, Folder 12, Western Michigan University Special Collections
References:
Wormald, F. 1943. "The Development of English Illumination in the Twelfth Century." Journal of the British Archaeological Association 8 (1): 31–49. doi:10.1080/00681288.1943.11894771.
Format:
image/tiff
Rights Status:
In Copyright.
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
Type:
Text
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Digital Date:
2024