Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Miscellany on the life of St. Edmund
England, Bury St Edmunds, ca. 1130
MS M.736 fol. 18r

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Edmund of England: Scene, Burial -- Within cross-surmounted church with twin towers, Hand of God emerges above two men, one wearing cap, placing shrouded body of Edmund in strigillated sarcophagus. Two flanking groups of men stand.
Patterned background and decorated frame.
Illustration of Abbo of Fleury, Passio Edmundi, chapter 14.