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English Art, 1307–1461. By Joan Evans. 9½ × 6. Pp. xxi + 272. Oxford History of English Art, vol. 5. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1949. 30s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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page 91 note 1 The nature of the babewyn is cleared up by Professor Owst by a quotation from Canterbury Cathedral MS. D. 14 which he printed in the Liverpool Review, ix (May 1934), p. 150. ‘Verily for all the world it seems that such are like the figures called babewynes which artists depict upon walls. For some of them they draw with a man's face and a lion's body; others too with a lion's face and the rest of a body of an ass; yet others with the head of a man and the hindquarters of a bear and so forth.…’

page 92 note 1 p. 40 for pl. 23b read 24b; p. 41 for 24b read 24c; p. 50 for 30b read 30a; p. 100 for 51 read 49; p. 121 for 58b read 58; p. 129 for 62 read 61; p. 183 for 83 read 82; p. 186 for 84b read 85b; p. 190 for 86a read 86b and for 86b read 86a; p. 211 for 46b read 45.

page 92 note 2 e.g. pl. 34a, 34b, 36a.

page 92 note 3 Cf. also the references to the tomb of Edward II on p. 164 and pis. 69 and 73. Onp.59.pl. 35a referred to as ‘the high altar’ of St. Augustine's, Bristol, but is captioned‘East end of Lady Chapel’.