An inscription on a late fourteenth-century jug — one couplet plus a
one-line prayer
Subjects: inscriptions
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 217-1879, inscription on a fourteenth-century jug (
olim manor house in Norfolk; Robinson
Collection)
Transcription:STOND UTTIR FROM THE FYRE
AND LAT ON IUST COME NERE
+GODDIS GRACE
BE IN THIS PLACE AMEN.+
Note: Ca. 1340-1405 (based on the royal arms on the front:
Alexander and Binski (1987)
XJonathan Alexander, and Paul Binski.
The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400.
London: Royal Academy of Arts in assoc. with Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1987
).
Editions: Alexander, Jonathan, and Paul Binski, eds.
The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400.
London: Royal Academy of Arts in assoc. with Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1987: 524, no. 727.