LONDON — An exhibition, the largest of its scale, on St. Thomas Becket is currently ... is told through 100-plus objects, including illuminated manuscripts, brought together for the first ...

SAINTS & ART: The witness of St. Thomas Becket, whose feast day is ... “Hours” were illuminated manuscript prayerbooks, often commissioned by rulers or the wealthy, that were popular in ...

But this could now be explained: the psalter wasn't kept with the other manuscripts, but in a store room for valuables, or on the shrine of St Thomas - as Becket became within three years of his ...

As we know, Becket was struck down at the ... Canterbury Cathedral There are objects he owned here – Thomas’s own (antique Roman) seal and an illuminated gospel he commissioned.

About 800 “spectacular manuscripts” from medieval ... include a 12th-century collection of St Thomas Becket’s letters and the lavishly illuminated Winchester Benedictional, created around ...

Oliver Postgate (of Bagpuss fame) and Naomi Linnell (from Canterbury Cathedral Library) created this 15.5 metre cartoon frieze in the 1980s to tell the story of Thomas Becket. They took ...

(Getty Museum) Review by Michael Dirda “The Book of Kells,” “The Lindisfarne Gospels” and “The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry” are not just illuminated manuscripts from the ...

But this could now be explained: the psalter wasn't kept with the other manuscripts, but in a store room for valuables, or on the shrine of St Thomas - as Becket became within three years of his ...