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| Keywords: British Library Additional 37049 47v Pride.png British Library Additional 37049 an illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany This illustration has been described as follows In the lower half of the picture pride is represented in the form of a young man dressed in finery He is assailed by two devils From p 67 from the cited source In the fifteenth-century BL MS Additional 37 049 f 47v a miniature illustrating pride depicts a youth in a tall hat blue puffed jacket red breeches long pyked shoes with a sword seized by two devils Quote from Robert Easting St Patrick's Purgatory Two versions of Owayne Miles and The Vision of William of Stranton together with the long text of the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Oxford University Press 1991 ISBN 0-19-722300-1 p 224 note SR166ff SA170ff this character's garments are of complex cut and elaborate tailoring; the hose being shaped to fit even around the knees the chest improved and emphasised by padding and with unnaturally wide shoulders His tightly belted waist is so narrow that it suggests corseting With his wide shoulders and puffed sleeves Pride is manifestly guilty of the charge levelled at all those men of fashion from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries that of distorting the image of God and presuming to improve on his handiwork Quote from Samantha Mullaney Fashion and Morality in BL MS Add 37049 out of John Scattergood ed Texts and their contexts Papers from the Early Book Society Four Courts Press Dublin 1997 ISBN 1-85182-209-7 p 76 Please note that the original drawing is colored but that all pictures in the cited book are in grayscale James Hogg ed An Illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany British Library London Additional MS 37049 Volume 3 The Illustrations 1981 Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg A-5020 Salzburg Austria p 67 Unknown Carthusian monk Late 15th century PD-old-100 15th-century fashion Pride Carthusian miscellany 1460-1500 - BL Add MS 37049 Poulaine | ||||
