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File:Henry exiles Becket's kin - Becket Leaves (c.1220-1240), f. 1r - BL Loan MS 88.jpg

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Artist
Unknown authorUnknown author; possibly
Matthew Paris (1200–1259)  wikidata:Q369366 s:en:Author:Matthew Paris q:en:Matthew Paris
 
Matthew Paris
Alternative names
Matthæus Parisiensis
Description British manuscript illuminator and cartographer
Date of birth/death circa 1200
date QS:P,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 between May 1259 and June 1259
date QS:P,+1259-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1259-05-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1259-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
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Location of birth/death England Edit this at Wikidata St Albans Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1217 Edit this at Wikidata–
Work location
St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q369366
but this is debated
Description
English: Left:Henry II banishes all Thomas Becket's people. Right: Becket lies sick at Pontigny Abbey, after excessive fasting.
Date between circa 1220 and circa 1240
date QS:P571,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1220-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1240-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Sir Paul Getty collection, Wormsley Park; on long-term loan to the
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
Loan MS 88, f. 1r
Inscriptions

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Proscribitur tota cognatio beati Th. et eidem exules presentantur. Apud Pontiniacum commorans pre nimio voluntario jejunio infirmatur graviter.
[All the family of blessed Thomas are proscribed and are presented to him as exiles. Lingering at Pontigny he is gravely weakened through too great voluntary fasting.]

on scroll in the King's hand:

Exulet tota propago vulgaris Th. et ei presentere.
[Let all the common people of Thomas be banished and present themselves to him]

above the doctor:

Infirmatur pre nimio jejunio apud Pontiniacum, sinisterque rumor auditus auget dolorem.
[He is weakened by too great fasting at Pontigny, and the hearing of disagreeable news increases his pain.]
Notes See Angelfire website for accompanying verses and an English translation
Source/Photographer

The Becket Leaves (La vie de Seint Thomas de Cantorbéry), a French-verse history of the life of Thomas Becket with large illuminations.

This file from C.J.Birkett's Becket Leaves website on Angelfire: webpage, file
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The expelling of Thomas Beckets relatives

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