Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 82
his tomb before the destruction ofreligious monuments which accompanied the great revolution, is a singularspecimen of the taste of the age in which it was composed. Petrus eram quem petra tegit; dictusque ComestorNunc comedor. Vivus docui, nec cesso docereMortuus, ut dicat qui me videt… … This work was translated into French somewhat more than a century after itwas originally composed, by Guiart des Moulins, who informs us in his prefacethat he was born in 1251; that he began the translation in 1291, the year inwhich he was made a canon of St. Peters at Aire ; that he finished the…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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