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 ...

The British Library has digitized one of the most astounding works of art of the Middle Ages, an illuminated manuscript known as the Sherborne Missal, making it viewable in astonishing detail online.

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 ...

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 ...