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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 which introduces August includes a representation of the zodiac sign for Leo, the lion, above a man battling with a dragon. Immediately above the two-line rubric are additions commemorating 'our brothers' Aegelred, Humphrey, Philip, Alexander, and 'William, monk of Christ Church [Canterbury], and benefactor of this place [i.e. St. Augustine's Abbey]' | 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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