Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor

 
      Extract from Folio 9r:Edward is received in England, and is crowned.

Cambridge University Library MS. Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c. 1250-60.

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