Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Thursday 16 March 2023

Another Matthew Parker manuscript for Cambridge


A manuscript from 1573 presented along with gifts to Queen Elizabeth I by Archbishop Matthew Parker on her visit to Canterbury that year has been secured for the Archbishop’s collection at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. The Nine Roundels may well be a unique survival of courtly gift giving from the period and has been saved for the country through an export ban.

The BBC News website has a picture and a brief description of the roundels at University library acquires rare manuscript


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