File:Engraving after Matthew Paris drawing of John of Wallingford (1255).jpg

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Unnamed engraver, after
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 Edit this at Wikidata St Albans Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1217 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q369366
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English: John of Wallingford seated reading at a lectern. Engraving of a drawing by Matthew Paris made while John of Wallingford was a monk at St Albans Abbey
Date 1892 (Original drawing 1255)
Medium Engraving (Book illustration)
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

J. R. Green (1892) A Short History of the English People (Illustrated edition), vol. 1, p. 283
This file cropped from a 1901 copy at the Internet Archive

Original manuscript: British Library Cotton MS Julius D VII, f. 42v
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