Image of Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied

Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a...

IMAGE number: BL3284623
Image title: Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour. Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund Author: Lydgate, John / England, S. (probably Bury St Edmunds, c. 1450- c. 1460 Source/Shelfmark: Harley 4826 f.1
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: priest / religious orders / religion / Saint Edmund / soldier / religious and spiritual role / people / manuscript / occupation / role / trooper / knight / document / monk / military occupations / occupations / two people / monks

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