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The Most Distinguished of Relics
The Crown of Thorns and the Crown of France
One of the most fascinating aspects of researching our manuscripts is discovering the many secrets hidden within their pages, just waiting to be found by the keen observer. While inspecting one of the finest examples of early French Gothic illumination in our collection, a Breviary made for Étienne Bécquart (1292-1307) the Archbishop of Sens, we realised that it contained a text and an image of the utmost rarity.
