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Monymusk Reliquary, the Glossary

The Monymusk Reliquary is an eighth century Scottish house-shape reliquaryMoss (2014), p. 286 made of wood and metal characterised by an Insular fusion of Gaelic and Pictish design and Anglo-Saxon metalworking, probably by Ionan monks.^[1]

25 relations: Alloy, Anglo-Saxons, Animal style, Arbroath Abbey, Art Fund, Battle of Bannockburn, Celtic art, Clan Forbes, Columba, Copper, Edward II of England, Forglen House, Gaels, House-shaped shrine, Insular art, Iona, Lindisfarne Gospels, Monymusk, National Museum of Scotland, Picts, Scottish Gaelic, Silver, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, William the Lion, Wood.
Christian reliquaries
Collections of National Museums Scotland
Culture of medieval Scotland
House-shaped shrines

Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Animal style

Animal style art is an approach to decoration found from Ordos culture to Northern Europe in the early Iron Age, and the barbarian art of the Migration Period, characterized by its emphasis on animal motifs.

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Arbroath Abbey

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

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Art Fund

Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation.

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Battle of Bannockburn

The Battle of Bannockburn (Blàr Allt nam Bànag or Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich) was fought on 23–24 June 1314, between the army of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, and the army of King Edward II of England, during the First War of Scottish Independence.

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Celtic art

Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period, as well as the art of ancient peoples whose language is uncertain, but have cultural and stylistic similarities with speakers of Celtic languages.

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Clan Forbes

Clan Forbes is a Highland Scottish clan from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Columba

Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Forglen House

Forglen House is a mansion house that forms the centrepiece of the Forglen estate in the parish of Forglen, north-west of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, in the north-east of Scotland.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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House-shaped shrine

House-shaped shrine (or church or tomb-shaped shrines)Crawford (1923), p. 82 are early medieval portable metal reliquary formed in the shape of the roof of a rectangular building. Monymusk Reliquary and House-shaped shrine are house-shaped shrines.

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Insular art

Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland. Monymusk Reliquary and Insular art are culture of medieval Scotland.

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Iona

Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille, sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.

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Lindisfarne Gospels

The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London.

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Monymusk

Monymusk (Monadh Musga) is a planned village in the Marr area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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National Museum of Scotland

The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture.

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Picts

The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages.

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monymusk_Reliquary

Also known as Breac Bannoch, Brecbennoch.