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038. MS M.736 fol. 19v

Miscellany on the life of St. Edmund

ca. 1130
England, Bury St Edmunds
MS M.736 fol. 19v

Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1927

MS M.736 fol. 19v

Edmund of England: Scene, Thieves hanged -- Two men, one seated astride a pole hung between two trees, hang eight thieves wearing long loin cloths. The hands of the thieves are bound to a pole (gallows). The illustration has a patterned background and decorated frame.
Illustration of Abbo of Fleury, Passio Edmundi, chapter 16.