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59 thE Emotional charGE and humanistic EffEct of thE crucifixion body who looks at the miniature of the crucifixion in the Evesham Psalter, Add. 44874 in the British Museum [now British Library], will dispute the truth of Eric Millar’s claim that it reaches the high-water mark of English illumination of its period’.16 Turner goes on to discuss the relationship between this image and the English Apocalypse manuscripts. In an insightful analysis of the style he places the Crucifixion in the context of the surviving sculpture from Henry III’s Westminster Abbey and links it to the work of the Sarum Master on the Missal of Henry of Chichester (figs. 9 and 10). It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the Evesham Psalter itself passed from the Abbot of Evesham to Richard Earl of Cornwall soon after it was made (fig. 11).17 Nigel Morgan has also convincingly argued that one of the earliest of the so-called English ‘Tinted Drawing’ Apocalypse manuscripts (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 403, once owned by King Charles V of France) should be considered a work of the Sarum Master himself and may well have also been made at Salisbury (fig. 12). It is of some significance that the work of this artist was regarded so highly, that even in the late fourteenth century this Apocalypse, now attributed to him, appears to have been lent by Charles V to Louis I of Anjou, during the creation of the famous Angers Apocalypse Tapestries (1373–1382) although not itself acting as a model for their iconography. It was then 16 Turner, The Evesham Psalter (cit. n. 8), pp. 23–41. 17 Nigel J. Morgan: Early Gothic Manuscripts II, 1250–1285. A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles IV. London 1988, no. 111, p. 78. Fig. 9: Westminster Abbey, Merman fighting a man. Sculpted Boss in Gallery, c. 1250? Fig. 10: The Evesham Psalter. The Crucifixion with Abbot Henry of Worcester (?) and two angels holding symbols of the sun and moon above. London, The British Library, Add. 44874, fol. 6r, Worcester or London, c. 1250–1260 Fig. 11: The Evesham Psalter London. Arms of Richard of Cornwall (d. 1272), brother of Henry III, added to a correction of Psalm 113 in the original hand. London, British Library, Add. 44874, fol. 162r