‘A breviary was a portable set of tools for performing the whole set of daily worship rituals throughout the Church year. It sounds dry, but – once more – the illustrations to these breviaries were magnificent.’
Ardis Butterfield on medieval illuination.
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The psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much...