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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT In die nativitatis domini, illuminated manuscript on thick card, [Fernham Priory, early twentieth century]
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
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A finely bound group of attractive illuminated liturgical manuscript leaves, executed, according to information received the former Mother Superior at St. Mary's Benedictine Priory at Fernham in Oxfordshire, by two nuns named Sister Mary Walburga (Caroline Campbell, died 1928) and Sister Francis de Sales (Clare Rymer, died 1948).
The Priory was first established in 1832 at Princethorpe, Warwickshire, by a community of Benedictine nuns from Montargis near Orleans who fled from France in 1792 after being persecuted during the French Revolution. The Priory was at one time the largest in England with over 200 nuns. In 1966 dwindling numbers led to the move to Fernham, and in 2001 the Priory closed and the nuns were dispersed.
Saleroom notices
We are grateful to Sister Mary Lucy, formerly of Fernham priory, for confirming the provenance and that the illumination was the work of Sister Mary Walburga and Sister Francis de Sales (a "talented artist... probable that [she] did the greater part of the fine illumination, though it seems certain that both were involved to some extent").





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