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Word: psalmbook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Reverently the financier turned the crackly pages, gravely he viewed an inset miniature of Sir Geoffrey with two ladies. Presently he laid the Psalter down, said that it ought not leave England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Luttrell Psalter | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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