The
Book of the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham
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The
Book of the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham |
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Society of Our Lady of Walsingham was inaugurated on 20 August 1925
and this book, written on vellum by Vera E Walker, was completed in
1926. It contains twelve richly illuminated pages (below), followed
by eleven less illuminated pages (the first six shown
below), and finally twenty-three pages written in normal handwriting,
mostly as signatures of new members dating from 1925 until the book
was virtually filled up. (The last page of signatures is actually on
a blank page at the very beginning of the volume.) There are no later
dates, so it is not certain when it ended, but the last six surnames
are Willoughby, Chapman, Taylor, Swindlehurst, Worthy and Brackley (all
ladies). The book was finely bound by Bumpus Ltd of Oxford Street, London.
It is mentioned in Our Lady's Mirror
January 1926 and Our Lady's Mirror
April 1926. the book measures 5.25" x 7.25" : scroll down to see all the pages |
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