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Description: | Caesarius (c.470-543) was bishop of Arles for the last 40 years of his life. One of his most wide-ranging achievements was to draw up the first set of guidelines specifically tailored to govern the conduct of nunneries; his own sister was abbess of a community of 200 women. He was especially famous as a preacher, and the present manuscript contains a number of his sermons. At the end of the main text is an added list of properties owned by Wallingford Priory, on the Thames between Didcot and Henley, in Berkshire: the manuscript therefore belonged to the priory in the Middle Ages.
The volume opens with a decorated initial 'D' enclosing simple foliate ornament, using three colours: red, green, and pale yellow. The modest decoration and clear script are typical of 12th-century monastic textbooks. | 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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