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Description: | St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in North Africa (354-430) began The City of God in 413, but did not finish it until about 426. It is one of the most important of his many writings, and was in part intended as a rebuttal to those who attributed the Fall of Rome in 410 to the abolition of pagan worship. Marginalia in this volume links it to a number of other manuscripts that seem to have belonged in the Middle Ages to Bath Abbey.
The end of Book VI and beginning of Book VII is marked by headings in coloured display capitals and a large blue initial 'D' enclosing red and green foliate motifs. The guide-letter 'd' is visible at the extreme left-hand edge of the page. | 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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