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57 thE Emotional charGE and humanistic EffEct of thE crucifixion forms part of the Song of Songs where the Sponsa (Bride) and Sponsus (Bridegroom) become allegorical representations of the Virgin and Christ in conversation.11 It comes as no surprise that this image of distress becomes a characteristic iconog- raphy in later English medieval art.12 Other manuscripts associated with this artist and his assistants include a Bible written by William of Hales in 1254 for the Canon 11 Paul Binski: Becket’s Crown. Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170–1300. Lon- don / New Haven 2004, p. 228. 12 T. A. Heslop: Attending at Calvary: an Early Fifteenth-Century English Panel Pain- ting. In: Tributes to Nigel J. Morgan. Contexts of Medieval Art. Images, Objects and Ideas, ed. by Julian Luxford / Michael A. Michael, London / Turnhout 2010, pp. 279– 292. Fig. 7: The Missal of Henry of Chichester. The Crucifixion with the fainting Virgin supported by a female saint with two angels holding symbols of the sun and moon above. Manchester, The John Rylands Library, MS 24, fol. 152r, Salisbury, c. 1250