Plate CXXII · Cluny
Vol. III (1949) · full-page plateAbove: SIDE OF THE BASILICA OF CLUNY. Engraving (etching and burin) by P. F. Giffart, reproduced in the Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti of G. Mabillon, V, Paris 1713, p. 256. Below: URBAN II, SURROUNDED BY CARDINALS, consecrates the high altar (25 Oct. 1095) of the Basilica begun by abbot Hugh (1088), present with his monks. Miniature accompanying the Libertas loci Cluniacensis sanctioned by lord pope Urban in that very monastery - Paris, National Library, ms. lat. 17716, f. 91 (late 12th cent.), important miscellaneous codex on Cluny.

