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Renaissance Prayer Book Discovered at Hertfordshire School
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2003/12/10 - 20:36.
BBC News | Flemish
A Renaissance prayer book, valued at £1m, last seen in 1862, was recently
rediscovered at St Edmund's College in Ware, England.
A richly-illustrated, 16th century Flemish prayer book was discovered recently
by a British Library curator at Hertfordshire school. The Book of Hours was
last seen in public in 1862, and contains texts, borders and illustrations of
subjects such as the Virgin Mary.
