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Among the topics are collections of books owned by the Percy family, penwork flourishing of initials, hierarchies of decoration in books of hours, and the last Bohun Hours and Psalter.
Among the artefacts on display will be a book of Homilies of Pope Gregory from 1170, St Thomas More's hat and gold crucifix, a vestment made for the opening of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, Elizabeth Plantagenet's Books of Hours, Catherine of Aragon's chasuble, Cardinal Wolsey's Book of Hours and the relic of the Holy Thorn for which Sainte Chapelle in Paris was built.
Tory published five principal editions of Books of Hours in the 1520s and 1530s.
 
 
 
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