CAMBRIDGE STUDIES
IN MEDIEVAL LIFE AND THOUGHT
Edited by G. G. Coulton, M.A.
Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge
and University Lecturer in English
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PLATE I
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PAGE FROM LA SAINTE ABBAYE
(At the top of the picture a priest with two acolytes prepares the sacrament; behind them stand the abbess, holding her staff, her chaplain and the sacristan, who rings the bell; behind them a group of four nuns, including the cellaress with her keys. At the bottom is a procession of priest, acolytes and nuns in the quire.)