Matthew_Paris_drawing_of_John_of_Wallingford_(1255)_-_BL_Cotton_MS_Julius_D_VII,_f.42v_(cropped).jpg

Summary

Artist
Matthew Paris (1200–1259) wikidata:Q369366 s:en:Author:Matthew Paris q:pl:Mateusz Paryżanin
Matthew Paris
Alternative names
Matthæus Parisiensis
Description British manuscript illuminator and cartographer
Date of birth/death circa 1200
date QS:P,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
between May 1259 and June 1259
date QS:P,+1259-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1259-05-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1259-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
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Location of birth/death England St Albans
Work period 1217 Edit this at Wikidata –
Work location
St. Albans Abbey , Hertfordshire , England
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q369366
Description
English: John of Wallingford seated reading at a lectern. Drawn and inscribed by Matthew Paris after John of Wallingford's term as infirmarer at St Alban's abbey
Date 1255
date QS:P571,+1255-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Ink and pigments on vellum
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
Cotton MS Julius D VII, f. 42v
Inscriptions

top:

Frater Johannes de Walingeford quandoque Infirmarius
[Brother John of Wallingford, onetime Infirmarer]

on lectern:

Salterium
[Psalter]

bottom:

Tonsio larga comae, nigra vestis, bota rotunda, / non faciunt monachum : sed mens a crimine munda
[A wide tonsure of the hair, a black robe, a round boot / don't make a monk ; but a mind away from the sins of the world]
Source/Photographer This file cropped from File:Matthew Paris drawing of John of Wallingford (1255) - BL Cotton MS Julius D VII, f.42v.jpg , taken from British Library Online Gallery, ( webpage , image )
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John of Wallingford

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John of Wallingford