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English: Late 16th century miniature with Beaufort arms, Beaufort Portcullis badge and Red Rose of Lancaster with motto Me Sovent Sovant (Souvent me souviens, "Often I remember", motto also given to St John's College, Cambridge, by its founder Lady Margaret Beaufort) inscribed four times on scrolls in the margins. Added to a 1382 manuscript of the Golden Legend by Jacobus Voragine. Origin: France, Central (Paris) (per British Library catalogue[1]). Provenance: Written in 1382: colophon, 'Ceste legende fut escript lan mil. ccc. quatre vins et deus'. A member of the Beaufort family, perhaps Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443, d. 1509), royal matriarch: crowned arms of Beaufort, earls and dukes of Somerset with the Beaufort's badge of a portcullis, red roses of Lancaster, and the Beaufort's motto 'Me sovent sovant' (Souvent me souviens), late 15th century (f. 1v). William Fitzalan, 16th Earl of Arundel (b. 1417, d. 1487): probably his autograph inscription 'My tryst ys. Arundell (f. 5). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 119; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11v. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. (Per British Library catalogue). Silver/white ornament has tarnished to black/grey on scrolls and on compony border.