In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
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🧵 PS: Louis IX, the only French king to be canonized, died on 25 Aug 1270.
🎨 with his mother, Blanche of Castile, in the Bible of St Louis, 1226-34; in the Breviary of #MarieDeStPol, c.1330s
Aug 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. In 1358 the Lady of Clare celebrated with a banquet at her London townhouse; her guests were the Minoress community of Franciscan nuns, & 28-year old Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince.
🎨 from artworks she would have seen: the altar frontal made for Blackfriars Thetford or Norwich, & the Breviary of Marie de St Pol.
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#MedievalArt #Assumption #LadyOfClare #MarieDeStPol #14thCentury #medieval
@medievalists The 1714 portrait is one of a series on the founders of Oxford & Cambridge colleges by John Faber the Elder, more of which can be seen at the #NationalPortraitGallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08105/john-faber-sr?role=art
#TalentedMigrant #18thCentury #engraving #printmaking #mezzotint #intaglio #JohnFaber #ArtHistory #MarieDeStPol #BishopBateman #PembrokeCollege #TrinityHall #CambridgeUniversity
Draughtsman and engraver Born in Holland, John Faber came to London in around 1687 and began engraving portraits shortly thereafter. By 1707, he had established a shop near the Savoy in the Strand where he printed and published his own work. Among his more famous mezzotints are portraits of the founders of both Oxford and Cambridge, a set of the heads of the twelve Caesars and twenty-one portraits of the Reformers. Faber's work is noteworthy because he was one of the few mezzotint engravers who often both designed and engraved his plates. His son, John Faber, also became a portrait engraver.
Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3
📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00005-00005/410; https://barnes1.net/seal/
#medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons
@hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.
Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯
My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.
🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00005-00005/373
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Claire Barnes
