Master Hugo
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Master Hugo (fl. c.1130-c.1150) was a Romanesque lay artist. His documented career at Bury St Edmunds Abbey spans from before 1136 to after 1148. He is most famous for illuminating the first volume of the Bury Bible for the Abbey about 1135, now in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; it is not known whether he illuminated the second volume, of which only a small fragment is known to survive, now in a private collection in the USA. He is also recorded as making a great bell for the Abbey and a crucifix carved with images of Mary and John, for the Monk's Choir. He has been credited with having made the ivory Cloisters Cross (or "Bury St. Edmunds Cross"), now at The Cloisters, New York, but this is doubtful; there is no certain evidence to suggest that the cross was even made in England, although this is accepted by most scholars, and other places of origin such as Germany have been proposed.
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- ‘Gesta sacristarum’, Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey, ed. T. Arnold, 2, Rolls Series, 96 (1892), 289–96
- C. M. Kauffmann, ‘The Bury Bible’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 29 (1966), 60–81
- R. M. Thomson, ‘Early Romanesque book-illustration in England: the dates of the Pierpont Morgan Vitae sancti Edmundi and the Bury Bible’, Viator, 2 (1971), 211–25
- R. M. Thomson, ‘The date of the Bury Bible reexamined’, Viator, 6 (1975), 51–8
- C. R. Dodwell, The pictorial arts of the West, 800–1200 (1993), 341–7
- T. A. Heslop, ‘The production and artistry of the Bury Bible’, Bury St Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology, and economy, ed. A. Gransden (1998), 172–85
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