Trier Cathedral Treasury

Four of the cathedral's main relics are not kept in the Treasury but elsewhere in the church. These are the Holy Tunic (in a separate chapel behind the main altar), the head reliquary of Saint Helena (in the east crypt), the reliquary shrine of Saint Maternus (in the central crypt) and the reliquary shrine of Saint Blaise and other saints (in the west crypt).[9]

The following are kept in the Treasury:

• the Egbert shrine, also referred to as the portable altar of Saint Andrew (German: Andreas-Tragaltar), a small reliquary chest from the late-10th-century Egbert workshops, with ivory plaques, enamels and precious stones, and a gold-plated foot on top (the first known 'speaking reliquary', in the shape of a body-part); containing relics of the apostle Andrew (the sole of his sandal), Saint Peter (some beard hair and part of his chain) and other relics mentioned below;[2]
• the Holy Nail, said to be a nail of the True Cross, found by Saint Helena and given to the church in Trier, according to tradition; contained in a precious reliquary, also from the Egbert workshops; previously held in the Egbert shrine;[10]
• the cup of Saint Helena, made of amethyst, dating from the 3rd/4th century, with 14th-century silver furnishing from Bohemia; also formerly held in the Egbert shrine;
• the silver arm reliquary of Saint Anne, dating from the 15th century, partly renewed in the 19th century.

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  Egbert shrine
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  Holy Nail reliquary
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  Cup of Helena
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  Saint Anne arm reliquary

During its long history the cathedral collected numerous liturgical vessels, candlesticks, processional crosses and other objects used in mass or for administering the Holy Sacraments. Despite the losses in the late 18th and early 19th century, the following remain:

• a portable altar said to have belonged to Saint Willibrord; the Latin inscription in the 8th-century porphyry altar stone confirms this; it also informs that the altar contained relics of the True Cross and of Jesus' sudarium (it now contains relics of the Virgin Mary's dress); the ivories and silver reliefs were added later; until 1794 it was part of the treasury of the Liebfrauenkirche (Trier, 8th-14th c.);[11]
• a portable altar with relics (Trier?, 12th c.);
• the funeral chalice, paten and bishop's ring of Poppo von Babenberg, archbishop of Trier from 1016–47;
• the bronze thurible of Gozbert (Trier?, ca. 1100);
• a richly decorated silver thurible (Trier?, 12th c.);
• a coconut cup, probably used as a reliquary; originally from St. Gangolf's church (Trier?, ca. 1550-1600);
• various Romanesque Revival or Gothic Revival liturgical objects, several by the Aachen goldsmiths Reinhold Vasters, Martin Vogeno and August Witte, others by the Trier workshop of Brems-Varain.

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  12th-century portable altar
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  Grave goods bishop Poppo
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  Thurible of Gozbert
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  16th-century coconut cup

The collection includes many enamels, including:

• the triptych of Saint Andrew (German: Andreas-Tragaltar), with a 16th-century silver-gilded statue of Saint Andrew in the central panel; the champlevé enamels on the side panels are possibly the work of Godefroid de Claire (Mosan, ca. 1160-70);
• a reliquary casket in champlevé with copper reliefs of saints (Limoges, late 12th c.);
• a processional cross in champlevé with a copper relief of Jesus (Limoges, late 12th c.);
• the crosier of Arnold II von Isenburg, archbishop of Trier from 1242-59 (Limoges, mid 13th c.);
• the crosier of Heinrich II von Finstingen, archbishop of Trier from 1260-86 (Limoges, mid 13th c.).

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  Saint Andrew triptych
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  Limoges reliquary casket
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  Limoges processional cross
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  Crosier of Arnold II

The cathedral in Trier owns many paintings, statues and reliefs, most of which can be found in the church, where they have a religious function. A few, mainly ivory carvings, are kept in the treasury:

• the Byzantine Adventus Ivory, a Byzantine ivory relief of a procession with relics (Constantinople, 6th c.?);[6]
• an ivory relief with the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple and the Baptism of Jesus, part of a book cover of the Simeon Codex, formerly in St. Simeon's (Trier, ca. 1100);
• an ivory relief with the Annunciation, part of a book cover (Saxony, early 12th c.);
• a silver Madonna with Child in a halo of rays (Franz Thaddäeus Lang, Augsburg, 1725–30).

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  Adventus Ivory
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  Book cover Simeon Codex
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  Saxonian book cover
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  Silver Madonna

Trier Evangeliary, 8th c.

Only a few specimens from the collection of historical books and medieval manuscripts are on display in the treasury:

• Trier Evangeliary, Ms. 61 (Trier or Echternach, ca. 700-750);
• Simeon Codex or Codex Simeonis, Greek lectionary with ivory cover from St. Simeon's in Trier (10th/11th c.);
• Helmarshausen Evangeliarium, written in Helmarshausen Abbey by Theophilus Presbyter (Helmarshausen, ca. 1100);
• Pericope Book of Kuno II von Falkenstein, archbishop of Trier from 1362-88 (Trier, ca. 1380).