Duke Humfrey Library
The Duke Humfrey library, named after the man who founded Oxford's library (more or less) is (sort of) the manuscripts department of Oxford University. I spent most of Monday and Tuesday consulting their indices and today (Tuesday) ordered some manuscripts. Difficult to describe the odd feeling one gets holding a well-handled Book of Hours, perhaps written for a king, that is eight hundred years old.
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