Archive for November 21st, 2008
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
The testament of Margaret Watmough of Chorley 1543
It is amazing how ancient manuscripts, apparently hidden or mislaid in antiquity, can come to light centuries later. Sometimes they are discovered bound into later books or even used as part of the binding. My favourite story relates to Cologne cathedral which was left incomplete in medieval times, but in 1814 Georg Moller came across […]
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