"Merchant's Surety." Vernon Manuscript. Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. A.1, f. 126r

Fig. 6. “Merchant’s Surety” (“Hou a Iew lente a cristenemon moneye and took ure lady to borow [used our lady as guarantor]”), Vernon Manuscript, Bodleian Library MS Eng. poet. a. 1 (c. 1380–1400), fol. 126r. (Image reproduced by permission from the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.) This image reproduces the complicated conversion process undergone by Abraham.

From The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time by Miriamne Ara Krummel

Creator(s)	scribe scribal artist
Subjects	Medieval and Renaissance Studies Literary Studies Jewish Studies
Date	c. 1380-c. 1400
Related Section	Chapter Two
Keywords	"Merchant's Surety" image of Blood Libel
Language	Latin Anglo-Norman Middle English
Citable Link	Citable Link

Rightsholder	Bodleain Libraries, University of Oxford
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Credit Line	“Merchant’s Surety” (“Hou a Iew lente a cristenemon moneye and took ure lady to borow” [used our lady as guarantor]), Vernon manuscript, Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. A. 1 (c. 1380-1400), f. 126 r. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

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