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Kirkstall Missal

28 Jun 2023

One of the ornate pages inside Leeds Central Library's Missale ad usum Cistercienci. Printed in Paris in 1516, the book is believed to have once belonged to the monks of Kirkstall Abbey and remarkably, it still contains notes and passages they delicately wrote by hand.

Kirkstall Missal: One of the ornate pages inside Leeds Central Library's Missale ad usum Cistercienci. Printed in Paris in 1516, the book is believed to have once belonged to the monks of Kirkstall Abbey and remarkably, it still contains notes and passages they delicately wrote by hand.
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