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The accession was seen as bringing opportunities for a younger humanist generation that had been excluded from royal benefaction in the later part...
The Psalter of Henry VIII is a 16th century illuminated psalter that belonged to Henry VIII of England. The king commissioned the book in the early...
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The British Library is full of sacred texts. Here are just a few.
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