# Benedictional of Archbishop Robert [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 0951-1000 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. 369 Y.7\) ## Commentary Benedictional of Archbishop Robert c. 980 Manuscript \(Ms. 369 Y.7\) Bibliothèque Municipale, Rouen This Anglo-Saxon Latin pontifical was produced in Winchester. Many of the books which were made for bishops - the pontificals and benedictionals — were used by identifiable figures. The benedictional in Rouen was made for Athelgar, bishop of Selsey \(980–988\), possibly at the New Minster, Winchester. This pontifical came to Normandy through Robert Champart \(died 1055\), bishop of London \(1044-1051\) and archbishop of Canterbury \(1051-1052\). The miniature on folio 54v depicts the death of the Virgin. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()