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Description: | A martyrology records accounts of martyrs and their deaths, for reading each day as part of the Divine Office, in the sequence of their feast-days through the year. Sometimes, as in the present example, space is left for the insertion notes to commemorate other deaths. The additions to the present manuscript (in addition to the style of its handwriting and decoration) show that it was made at St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
The 'KL' monogram (for 'kalends' or month) which introduces March includes a representation of the zodiac sign for Pisces, the fish, and several men pruning plants, the traditional 'occupation of the month'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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