Giving rare books a new leaf on life: Folger Library preserves works of Bard, others.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times) From: The Washington Times | Date: February 10, 1997| Author: Barnes, Denise | COPYRIGHT 1997 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A red, calfskin prayer book with gold tooling, given to King Henry VIII as a gift from his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, bears a handwritten note on its last page to the English king.

"I Besiche Your Grace Hubl When Ye Loke On This Remember Me. Yor Gracis Assured Anne the dowgher off Cleves."

This "Book of Hours," as prayer books once were called, is dated 1533. The book's parchment pages are still pristine.

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