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The monk Eadwine, the prince of scribes (as the inscription calls him) is shown in this mid-twelfth-century portrait in a luxury glossed Psalter written at the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury. Eadwine is working with a pen and a knife together.
Once assumed to be a self-portrait, this celebrated picture is perhaps commemorative of a famous Canterbury scribe of the past.
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