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  • Title: Geoffrey Luttrell Prepares for Battle
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  • Description: The accompanying image for Psalm 109 (“The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool”). Sir Geoffrey Luttrell is mounted and wearing full armor. His wife, Agnes de Sutton, hands him his helmet, and his daughter-in-law, Beatrice le Scrope, holds his shield. Both women wear heraldric sideless surcoats displaying Geoffrey’s device, though only one half of Agnes’s surcoat displays the Luttrell heraldry.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Armor Donor Portraits Heraldry Luttrell Family Psalters, Liturgical Books Wives
  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
  • Date: ca. 1325-1335
  • Related Work: Luttrell Psalter. Full page available through the British Library: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/ttpbooks.html (will not open in Safari)")
  • Current Location: London, British Library, Add. MS 42130, fol. 202v
  • Original Location: Lincolnshire
  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Manuscript illuminations
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Vellum (parchment)
  • Donor: Layman; Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord of Irnham Manor
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