Podium; A precious voice from the middle ages Michelle Brown From a speech about the Sherborne Missal given by the curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 23, 1999| Author: Michelle Brown | Copyright information

IN JULY 1998 the Sherborne Missal was acquired for the nation after negotiations in which the British Library, government offices, granting bodies and the book trade collaborated to ensure that this medieval masterpiece remained in the country and passed into public ownership. The British Library is currently mounting an appeal to raise the funds to meet the remaining payments of approximately pounds 1.5m to complete this arrangement. Why should such forces have been marshalled? What is so sp...

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