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Isabella Breviary

According to Janet Backhouse, former head of manuscripts at the British Library, “the Isabella Breviary is one of the most valuable treasures in the British Library’s enormous manuscript collection, a work the reflects both the artistic and the political history of its period (…) this acquisition is one of the most important purchases of an illuminated manuscript in the history of the British Museum and its library.”1