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Costa, Alexandra da

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“…In addition to high numbers of items left at Bridget's shrine, Brian Spencer describes the often 'crudely made' pilgrim badges issued to pilgrims at Syon, 6 and Da Costa comments that printed copies of devotional books also may have been available for purchase at Syon as souvenirs for literate pilgrims. 7 One example, recovered from the Thames, offers a potential model for pilgrim badges issued at Syon. It presents a traditional depiction of Bridget, with decorative protrusions from the main scene of the lead/tin alloy design, and 'SCA BRIGT' inscribed on the frame.…”

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Private Pilgrimages at Syon Abbey? A Note on Cambridge University Library MS Ff.6.33

Lucas

2019

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In the central folios (70v-1r) of Cambridge, University Library, Ff.6.33, is a reddish-brown discolouration, rectangular in size, which seems to have bled through the material, faded but still visible on one bifolium. The mark resists immediate classification as a spillage or other such accidental damage and thus raises the question of how we might interpret such markings. Has the manuscript been used to store an item flat? Is it a mark left by a historical binding? Or is it 'reader's residue', perhaps an imprint of a bookmark or an item directly related to the contents of the collection of texts, which combines to form a matrix of reading apparatus? I am interested in this last possibility and, given the information available about the manuscript regarding its provenance, ordinatio, and scribe, think it a worthy thought experiment to consider how a particular item-possibly a pilgrim badge-might have augmented the use of the manuscript for its intended reader.Cambridge University Library, Ff.6.33 (henceforth F) is a collection of devotional texts, written in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The materials within include texts such as The boke of the XII patriarkys, indulgences of Pope John XII, an exposition on the Pater Noster, the Latin Ave Maria followed by an English translation, the Treatise on the Nine Virtues, a translation of the Rule of St. Augustine, the Ladder of Foure Ronges (a translation of the Scala Claustralium), and most significantly for our inquiry, The Rewyll of Seynt Sauioure, the Middle English Rule of St. Bridget of Sweden. The manuscript is small (176 x 130mm), unembellished and in good condition, with blue and red ink used for simply elaborated initials and paraph markers. There are neither signs of marginalia nor illuminations, rendering F a simple and compact devotional tool.

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Private Pilgrimages at Syon Abbey? A Note on Cambridge University Library MS Ff.6.33

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2019

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Remedies for Despair: Considering Mental Health in Late Medieval England

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2018

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Richard Pace and the Psalms

Wade

2021

J. Eccles. Hist.

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In the library of Winchester College is a multi-lingual psalter formerly owned by the diplomat and scholar, Richard Pace (c.1483–1536). Pace left extensive notes in this volume, the product of his study of the Hebrew Scriptures in comparison with the Vulgate and Greek Septuagint. They demonstrate his engagement with a variety of Jewish, patristic and humanist learning. A broader set of theological and devotional themes also emerge. For Pace, the Psalms were primarily a prophetic text, foretelling the coming of Christ and the Gospels, but they likewise reflected an interest in devotion, rhetoric and prayer typical of humanists of the period.

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Private Pilgrimages at Syon Abbey? A Note on Cambridge University Library MS Ff.6.33

Remedies for Despair: Considering Mental Health in Late Medieval England

Richard Pace and the Psalms

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