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Illustrations of Anglo-Saxons in

Prudentius' Psychomachia
'Conflict Of The Soul'
British Library, MS Cotton Cleopatra C VIII, c.1000
Chastity and Lust

folio 07v lower
Chastity compelled to fight against Lust

PUDICITIA CONTRA LIBIDINEM ADACIS PUGNAT

folio 08r upper
Chastity hits Lust with a stone

PUDICITIA LIBIDINEM CUM SAXO PERCUTIT

folio 08r lower
Chastity stabs through Lust with a sword

PUDICITIA LIBIDINEM TRANS FIGIT GLADIO

folio 08v
Chastity rebukes the corpse of Lust

PUDICITIA LIBIDINEM EXTINCTAM INCREPAT

folio 09v
Chastity washing her sword in the Jordan River

PUDICITIA GLADIUM SUUM LAVIT IN IORDANE FLUVIO

folio 10r upper
Chastity stores her sword under the altar in the temple

PUDICITIA GLADIUM SUUM SUB ALTARE IN TEMPLO RECONDIT



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