Here's something I wrote about J.L. Carr for the excellent Engelsberg Ideas. Follow the link...
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-man-who-gave-books-away/
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- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
I enjoyed your article in Engelsberg Ideas on butterflies but wanted to direct you to a fifteenth century (I think) painting of a butterfly in Hereford Cathedral - intended I believe as a symbol of the soul, so not idle of frivolous. You probably know of it; if not do ask for directions - philipweaver@live.co.uk
ReplyDeleteThanks, Philip – I didn't know about that. Is it on one of the manuscripts in the chained library? Do you have an image or a link?
DeleteI can't find a photo sadly. It's a generic butterfly and could easily be a dragon fly! I find it's early 16thC, pre Reformation. It's a panel on the screen of the beautiful Audley Chapel (end of the Lady chapel at Hereford Cathedral on the right, south.) Hereford is not that far from Lichfield - I expect you'll visit one day!
DeleteThanks, Philip – I must pay a visit. It's been many years since I was last there.
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