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Description: | Aldhelm (c.639-709), Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, wrote 'In Praise Of Virginity' for the abbess and nuns of Barking Abbey; it is likely that some of his relatives were nuns there. The manuscript was written and decorated at Christ Church, Canterbury, however; the original decoration includes a typical Anglo-Saxon Canterbury style of interlace and biting animal- and bird-heads.
On a formerly blank flyleaf a later artist has added this drawing of St. Aldhelm, dressed as a bishop, standing (or sitting?) before a lectern on which a book is open at the opening words of his treatise. | 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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