Books of Jeu
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The Books of Jeu are two Gnostic texts. Though independent works, both the First Book of Jeu and the Second Book of Jeu appear, in Sahidic Coptic, in the Bruce Codex. They are a combination of a gospe
A page from the 1st book of Jeu
M. R. James
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Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College, as well as vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge. J
Books of Jeu
…The work is somewhat similar to the Gnostic Apocryphon of John. M. R. James was unimpressed with the work; he wrote that its "mystic diagrams, and numbers, and meaningless collections of letters (...) require a vast deal of…
M. R. James, c. 1900
M. R. James's scholarly work uncovered the burial places of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in 1903 (from front to rear): Edmund of Walpole (1248–1256); Henry of Rushbrooke (1235–1248); Richard of the Isle of Ely (1229–1234); Samson (1182–1211); and Ording (1148–1157).
Illustration by James McBryde for M. R. James's story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'". James was close friends with the illustrator, and the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904 was intended as a showcase for McBryde's artwork, but McBryde died having completed only four plates.
The Virgin Mary: page from a 15th-century book of hours from the catalogue of the Fitzwilliam Museum