Friday, September 4, 2026

Æthelstan presenting a book to St Cuthbert, an illustration in a manuscript of Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert, probably presented to the saint's shrine in Chester-le-Street by Æthelstan when he visited the shrine on his journey to Scotland in 934. He wore a crown of a similar design on his crowned bust coins. It is the oldest surviving portrait of an English king and the manuscript is the oldest surviving made for an English king.

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Æthelstan presenting a book to  St Cuthbert , an illustration in a manuscript of  Bede 's  Life of Saint Cuthbert , probably presented t...