Henry_exiles_Becket's_kin_-_Becket_Leaves_(c.1220-1240),_f._1r_-_BL_Loan_MS_88.jpg
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Summary
Artist |
Unknown author
Unknown author
; possibly
artist QS:P170,Q369366
but this is debated
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Description |
English:
Left:
Henry II
banishes all Thomas Becket's people. Right: Becket lies sick at Pontigny Abbey, after excessive fasting.
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Date |
between circa 1220 and circa 1240
date QS:P571,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1220-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1240-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Collection |
Sir Paul Getty
collection,
Wormsley Park
; on long-term loan to the
institution QS:P195,Q23308
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Accession number |
Loan MS 88, f. 1r
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Inscriptions |
top:
Proscribitur tota cognatio beati Th. et eidem exules presentantur. Apud Pontiniacum commorans pre nimio voluntario jejunio infirmatur graviter.
[All the family of blessed Thomas are proscribed and are presented to him as exiles. Lingering at Pontigny he is gravely weakened through too great voluntary fasting.]
on scroll in the King's hand:
Exulet tota propago vulgaris Th. et ei presentere.
[Let all the common people of Thomas be banished and present themselves to him]
above the doctor:
Infirmatur pre nimio jejunio apud Pontiniacum, sinisterque rumor auditus auget dolorem.
[He is weakened by too great fasting at Pontigny, and the hearing of disagreeable news increases his pain.]
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Notes | See Angelfire website for accompanying verses and an English translation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
The Becket Leaves
(La vie de Seint Thomas de Cantorbéry),
a French-verse history of the life of Thomas Becket with large illuminations.
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Permission
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Captions
The expelling of Thomas Beckets relatives