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The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15
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#MarieDeStPol founded #PembrokeCollege Cambridge. She’s shown here with #StCecilia, patron of musicians, whose feast is celebrated on 22 Nov.
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In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
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@medievalists The 1714 portrait is one of a series on the founders of Oxford & Cambridge colleges by John Faber the Elder, more of which can be seen at the #NationalPortraitGallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08105/john-faber-sr?role=art
#TalentedMigrant #18thCentury #engraving #printmaking #mezzotint #intaglio #JohnFaber #ArtHistory #MarieDeStPol #BishopBateman #PembrokeCollege #TrinityHall #CambridgeUniversity
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Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3
📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00005-00005/410; https://barnes1.net/seal/
#medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons