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This parchment codex was probably commissioned in 1284 to celebrate the proposed marriage of Alphonso (1273-1284), earl of Chester, son of King Edward I, and Margaret, daughter of Florent V, Count of Holland and Zeeland, aborted by Alphonso's death in August 1284.
Surprisingly, we can encounter a vast amount of bizarre, grotesque and often apparently subversive imagery at the margins of devotional manuscripts, the capitals of churches and cloisters and the undersides of choir stalls. The present image shows a marginal drawing from the Alphonso Psalter, it depicts a lion carrying of a man.
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