Page from The Book of Margery Kempe

Server Costs Fundraiser 2023

Help our mission to provide free history education to the world! Please donate to our server cost fundraiser 2023, so that we can produce more history articles, videos and translations. With your support millions of people learn about history entirely for free, every month.
$10731 / $21000

Illustration

Arienne King
by British Library
published on 22 April 2019

A page from The Book of Margery Kempe, probably copied from the original c. 1440 CE. This work was first dictated by Margery Kempe (c. 1373 - c. 1438 CE) in the mid 15th Century CE and may be the oldest surviving English biography.

This manuscript is the only surviving copy, and is part of the collection of the British Library, London.

Remove Ads

Advertisement

Cite This Work

APA Style

Library, B. (2019, April 22). Page from The Book of Margery Kempe. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10490/page-from-the-book-of-margery-kempe/

Chicago Style

Library, British. "Page from The Book of Margery Kempe." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 22, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10490/page-from-the-book-of-margery-kempe/.

MLA Style

Library, British. "Page from The Book of Margery Kempe." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 22 Apr 2019. Web. 01 Apr 2023.

Membership