Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures.

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List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kathryn Gerry and Laura Cleaver
1 Hoard Fever: Objects Lost and Found, Beowulf and Questions of Belonging
Joshua Davies
2 Lost Craft: Tracing Ships in the Early Medieval Riddling Tradition
Beth Whalley
3 Typological Exegesis and Medieval Architecture in Honorius Augustodunensis's Gemma animae
Karl Kinsella
4 Lost Objects and Historical Consciousness: The Post-Conquest Inventories at Ely
Katherine Weikert
5 Fire! Accounts of Destruction and Survival at Canterbury and Bury St Edmunds in the Late Twelfth Century
Laura Cleaver
6 Reweaving the Material Past: Textual Restoration of Two Lost Textiles from St Albans
Kathryn Gerry
7 Matthew Paris, Metalwork and the Jewels of St Albans
Judith Collard
8 Illustrating the Material Past: A Pictorial Treasury in the Late-Medieval Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey
Deirdre Carter
9 Lost and Found: Gothic Ivories in Late Medieval French Household Records
Katherine A. Rush
10 Ivories in French Royal Inventories, 1325-1422: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age?
Marian Bleeke
11 Parisian Painters and their Missing Oeuvres: Evidence from the Archives
Katherine Baker
12 The Mythical Outcast Medieval Leper: Perceptions of Leper and Anchorite Squints
Victoria Yuskaitis
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index