Keywords: Henry exiles Becket's kin - Becket Leaves (c.1220-1240), f. 1r - BL Loan MS 88.jpg author ; possibly Henry II of England Henry II banishes all Thomas Becket's people Right Becket lies sick at Pontigny Abbey after excessive fasting ~ 1220 1240 John Paul Getty Jr Sir Paul Getty collection Wormsley Park ; on long-term loan to the institution British Library object history credit line inscription Proscribitur tota cognatio beati Th et eidem exules presentantur Apud Pontiniacum commorans pre nimio voluntario jejunio infirmatur graviter All the family of blessed Thomas are proscribed and are presented to him as exiles Lingering at Pontigny he is gravely weakened through too great voluntary fasting top latin inscription Exulet tota propago vulgaris Th et ei presentere Let all the common people of Thomas be banished and present themselves to him on scroll in the King's hand la inscription Infirmatur pre nimio jejunio apud Pontiniacum sinisterque rumor auditus auget dolorem He is weakened by too great fasting at Pontigny and the hearing of disagreeable news increases his pain above the doctor latin See Angelfire website for http //www angelfire com/pa4/becketleaves/becketleavesorig1 html accompanying verses and an http //www angelfire com/pa4/becketleaves/becketleaveseng1 html English translation accession number Loan MS 88 f 1r The Becket Leaves La vie de Seint Thomas de Cantorbéry a French-verse history of the life of Thomas Becket with large illuminations <br /> This file from C J Birkett's http //www angelfire com/pa4/becketleaves/ Becket Leaves website on Angelfire http //www angelfire com/pa4/becketleaves/becketleavesorig1 html webpage http //www angelfire com/pa4/becketleaves/tb1 jpg file PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard The Becket Leaves c 1220-1240 - BL Loan MS 88 01r Henry II of England Medicine in medieval miniatures |