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When King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, her Book of Hours went missing for centuries. A recent discovery reveals a string of women who secured the book for decades after her ...
Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon all owned a copy of the same Book of Hours. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons under public domain, Trinity College ...
“Catherine and Anne both owned a copy of the same printed Book of Hours (popular scriptural prayerbooks), produced in Paris in 1527,” she says in a statement. The exhibition includes the 1527 ...
Interest in the book of hours has being growing steadily, thanks to the volumes’ sumptuous illustrations, and the rich insights they provide on life in the Middle Ages. By Alec Scott As she ...