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| Keywords: British Library Additional 37049 32v Lady in Tomb.png British Library London Additional MS 37049 Volume 3 The Illustrations 1981 Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg A-5020 Salzburg Austria p 43 The illustration emphasizes her beauty rank and fashionable garments she wears a golden crown atop a stylish and ornate headdress Her attire is rich and a brown cloak covers her body which is clad in a red skirt and cream bodice specked with bits of brown possible ermine Her eyes are open and her hands in a position of prayer radiating a sense of peace amidst her worldly glory The lower level of the tomb however depicts her current state The body head tilted toward the viewer lies surrounded by worms and toads Her right hand grips her shroud against her belly protecting herself from the feasting vermin which her left hand seems to be trying to brush them away from their meal at her left leg Quoted from Wendy Alysa Matlock Irreconcilable Differences Law Gender And Judgment in Middle English Debate Poetry Ohio State University 2003 p 101 “102 http //etd ohiolink edu/send-pdf cgi/Matlock 20Wendy 20Alysa pdf acc 5Fnum osu1059425199 Irreconcilable Differences Law Gender And Judgment in Middle English Debate Poetry dissertation by Wendy Alysa Matlock Ohio State University 2003 Figure 3 1 p 162 An unknown Carthusian monk Late 15th century <gallery> File Transitory tomb - 1435-40 jpg File Transitory tomb - 1435-40 jpg </gallery> PD-old-100 15th-century fashion Carthusian miscellany 1460-1500 - BL Add MS 37049 Death in medieval miniatures | ||||
