Lesnes Abbey in the parish of Erith, Kent; being the complete report of the investigations, architectural and historical, carried out by the Works Committee of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society during (14786915943)

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Title: Lesnes Abbey in the parish of Erith, Kent; being the complete report of the investigations, architectural and historical, carried out by the Works Committee of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society during the years 1909-1913
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Clapham, Alfred William, Sir, 1883-1950 Woolwich Antiquarian Society, Wollwich, Eng
Subjects: Lesnes Abbey
Publisher: London Cassio Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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mas the Martyr, of Lesnes. the which,whosoever shall steal or anywise falsify, unless he make full satisfaction to the same Church,let him be anathema maranatha. In the case of MS. No. 19 the donor, Brother Thomas de Sandwich, is mentioned.No. 19 also contains homilies of St. Augustine of Hippo upon the Psalms, beginningat Psalm 80 and ending with 118. Bound in with the front cover is a page of theworks of St. Benedict. No. 31 is a large quarto, very finely written, with large initialletters and scroll work executed in red, blue, green and brown. It contains the Pan-thcologi of Brother Peter, Canon of the Holy Trinity. London, and has a prologuededicating the work to the Most Reverend and Delectable Lord and Father in Christ.Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester. No. 131 is a small quarto and containsthirty anonymous sermons on various subjects—the Martyrs, the Passion, Humility,the Nativity, Annunciation, Assumption, and Purification of the Virgin, the Seven LESNES ABBEY. Plate IX.
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EAST WALL AND ALTAR BASE IN NORTH TRANSEPTAL CHAPEL. THE LIBRARY Deadly Sins, The Nativity of Our Lord, etc. Prefixed to these is a sermon ofSt. Augustine on the Annunciation. The Gonville and Caius MSS. are of rather more varied character. All of themhave the same notes as before, No. 135 being also a gift of Thomas de Sandwich.No. 121 is 10 inches by 6J inches and consists of 104 folios, being of late 12th centurydate. It contains a work of Hugo de Folieto : Concerning the Cloister of the Soul.No. 135 is rather smaller (8; inches by 6 inches) and contains a variety of subjects—the Allegorical History of Master Peter (Comestor), Sermon of Pope Leo, Proverbsfrom Latin Authors, and various Sermons, among them the Order of Peter Mandu-cator for the whole year. No. 151 (9 inches by 6; inches) is still more varied in itscontents, including, besides Sermons, excerpts from various Authors, a description ofJerusalem, an Exposition of the Mass, a tract on the Creation, notes on Arithmetic,t