Lydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury mb-code 42-47609163 'A Nisovian Tunguzian in his

'A Nisovian Tunguzian in his Winter Habit'

tells the two little urchins

1450s-1480s

Two knights jousting at a tournament

Lydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury mb-code 42-47609163 'A Nisovian Tunguzian in hisLydgate presenting his book to the Earl of Salisbury, 1426, (1843). John Lydgate, poet of Bury St Edmunds, presents his book to Thomas de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury. Lydgate's book, Ye Pilgrime, (Pilgrimage of the World, by the commandement of the Earle of Salisburie, 1426), now lost, was commissioned by the earl who was killed at the siege of Orleans in 1428. The pilgrim here is only an emblematic personage, the monk standing beside him and holding