the Jerdone Braikenridge
collection at Christie's in 1908. It is supposed to have come from
Malmesbury Abbey, and is probably of 13th-century English make. It is of
copper-gilt and ornamented with champleve enamels, apple and chrysoprase
green, scarlet, mauve and white, turquoise and lapis lazuli, the flesh
tints being of a pale jasper. Various subjects from the Old and New
Testament, such as the sacrifice of Abel, the brazen serpent, the
nativity, crucifixion and resurrection are represented on circular
medallions on the outside. It is illustrated in colours in the catalogue
of the exhibition of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1897.

CIBRARIO, LUIGI, COUNT (1802-1870), Italian statesman and historian,
descended from a noble but impoverished Piedmontese family, was born in
Usseglia on the 23rd of February 1802. He won a scholarship at the age
of sixteen, and was teaching literature at eighteen. His verses to King
Charles Albert, then prince of Carignano, on the birth of his son Victor
Emmanuel, attracted the prince's attention and proved the beginning of a
long intimacy. He entered the Sardinian civil service, and in 1824 was
appointed lecturer on canon and civil law. His chief interest was the
study of ancient documents, and he was sent to search the archives of
Switzerland, France and Germany for charters relating to the history of
Savoy. During the war of 1848, after the expulsion of the Austrians from
Venice, Cibrario was sent to that city with Colli to negotiate its union
with Piedmont. But the proposal fell through when the news of the
armistice between King Charles Albert and Austria arrived, and the two
delegates were made the objects of a hostile demonstration. In October
1848 Cibrario was made senator, and after the battle of Novara (March
1849), when Charles Albert abdicated and retired to a monastery near
Oporto, Cibrario and Count Giacinto di Collegno were sent as
representatives of the senate to express the sympathy of that body with
the fallen king. He reached Oporto on the 28th of May, and after staying
there for a month returned to Turin, which he reached just before the
news of Charles Albert's death. In May 1852 he became minister of
finance in the reconstructed d'Azeglio cabinet, and later minister of
education in that of Cavour. In the same year he was appointed secretary
to the order of SS. Maurizio and Lazzaro. It was he who in 1853 dictated
the vigorous memorandum of protest against the confi