1-217-477 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Abbot Elfnoth, 1020-1050, (1910). A 19th-century depiction after an 11th-century manuscript, showing Abbot Elfnoth (died 980 AD) presenting his book of prayer to St Augustine. Augustine is represented as an archbishop wearing the pallium over a chasuble, the high collar seen being probably the amice. Under the chasuble is a dalmatic with wide sleeves, the two ends of the stole appear beneath the dalmatic, the widening of the ends is characteristic of the Saxon period. Elfnoth also wears chasuble, dalmatic, amice (ornamental collar) and alb (robe). Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).