‘The fashion for dismembering illuminated manuscripts was rampant around the turn of the 20th century and hard to circumvent. Otto Ege, for example, a bookseller and lecturer, cut out pages from around fifty manuscripts to sell in newly compiled portfolios.’
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The psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much...
