Rather like a Who’s Who of medieval England, the book lists everyone from Kings and Queens through Popes, Abbots and Monks, right down to stone masons and millers who each made a contribution to the Abbey. Paris’s fascinating work is joined by the second name most associated with the Abbey chronicles, Thomas Walsingham.Ī monk with a fine and lively writing style and a determination to bring about another golden age of chronicle-writing and illustration at the Abbey in the wake of Paris, Walsingham compiled The Golden Book of St Albans, on display in the exhibition, which lists many of the benefactors who had donated to the Abbey. The book includes a map of Britain, lives of the first 23 abbots of St Albans, and copies of original documents. Illuminated manuscript was a method of communication during the medieval era in which book-like text was decorated using the likes of silver, gold, and decorative designs (Campbell et al., 2017). Their production involved transforming animal skins into.
There is also a chance to see Paris’s Liber Additamentorum, or “Book of Additions”, composed in the 12th or 13th century as his collection of original literary treatises and historical documents assembled to support his research for Chronica Majora. Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Local donors to the monastery presenting charters to lands or tenements © The British Library
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