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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0017B2"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000C04">Read this article and sigh.....</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0017B2"><br></font></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cuthbert_Gospel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cuthbert_Gospel</a></font><div><br></div><div>You don't have to be a calligrapher or a bookbinder to appreciate this <u>small </u>book that was recently bought by the British Library. The history of the book that was originally put into St. Cuthbert's coffin (died 687 AD) is fascinating. It dates to the source of the Lindisfarne Gospels and was moved about the country because of being under threat from the Vikings on more than one occasion. Later, important visitors to the monastery were permitted to wear it in a pouch, would you believe?</div><div><br></div><div>Check out this lengthy article and be amazed at the photos......</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, the amount of <u>9 million British pounds</u> is equal to <u>14.3 million US dollars</u>.......... paid for St. Cuthbert's Gospel book.</div><div> </div><div>YIS (Yours In Service),</div><div><br></div><div>HL Lete Bithespring, scribe and illuminator </div><div>MKA (mundanely known as) Elaine Crittenden</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Books were so valuable that, at times, hostages were traded for them. One captured king was traded for one finished book and one half-finished book. The captors then finished the book, but with disparaging notations in it about how inept the original scriptorium was in making it !!</div><div>; - )</div></body></html>