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Harley Roll Y 6, Roundel 8, Roundel of St Bartholomew (the patron saint of...

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Harley Roll Y 6, Roundel 8, Roundel of St Bartholomew (the patron saint of Crowland) giving a scourge to St Guthlac so he can drive away the demons who have carried him to the gates of hell, with the inscriptions 'S[an]c[tu]s Bartholom[eus] fert flagru[m] Guthlaco' and 'Demones fer[un]t Guthl[acum] ad portas infer[n]i', and inscriptions labelling the saint and 'Infern[us]' (Hell). from the 'Life of Guthlac' (the 'Guthlac Roll', or Vita Sancti Guthlaci) 1175-1215
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English School, (13th century) / English
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British Library, London, UK
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parchment
Date
1175 AD - 1215 AD (C12th AD - C13th AD)
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Guthlac (674–715) was a saint from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. He was a warrior in the Mercian borderlands who, after nine years of fighting, had a religious conversion and became a hermit in Crowland, in Lincolnshire, where he lived in solitude on an island in the middle of a marsh.

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guthlac roll / parchment / life / anglo saxon / saint / crowland / st bartholomew / st guthlac / demon / demons / winged / creature / creatures
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