In Living Memory: Portraits of the Fourteenth-Century Canons of Dorchester Abbey

The Biblical Concordance made for the Arrouasian Abbey of Augustinian Canons at Dorchester, near Oxford (now Trinity College, Dublin MS 65) during the abbacy of John de Sutton (1333-49) is illustrated with initials for each letter of the alphabet, each enclosing the ‘portrait’ of one of the then-living members of the monastic community, all identified by name. The study links the manuscript with the three large windows in the abbey church chancel, unique combinations of figural stone tracery and stained glass that were installed during the same years.