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Marmeduke de Thweng.svg|25. Robert de Thweng
Marmaduke de Thweng.svg|25. Robert de Thweng
Folio 170a 26.svg |26. Unidentified  
Folio 170a 26.svg |26. Unidentified  
Castile Paris.svg |27. Kingdom of Castile and Leon
Castile Paris.svg |27. Kingdom of Castile and Leon
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John de Lancaster.svg| De Lancaster
John of Lancaster.svg| De Lancaster
William de Mauduit.svg|Mauduit
Mauduit.svg|Mauduit
Galifredi de Bello Campo.svg|Geoffroy de Beauchamp
Galifredi de Bello Campo.svg|Geoffroy de Beauchamp
Furnival.svg|Furnival
Furnival.svg|Furnival

Revision as of 18:21, 20 June 2016

Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259) became a monk of St. Albans in 1217, and in 1236 became the abbey chronicler, a task which allowed him to exercise and explore his talents as a scribe, and as an accomplished and inventive artist.
Most of this manuscript is written in Matthew's own distinctive handwriting, as are the miniatures, except for some added in the 14th century.
The 'Book of Additions' contains a variety of miscellaneous texts and images. Among Matthew's many other interests was heraldry.
Here he has laid out in rows copies of the shields of members of the English nobility.