An illuminated breviary (a book containing all the necessary liturgical texts for an order or church official) composed in the 1320s.
Belleville breviary
Fact of the Day
In 1506 the Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was accused of baptising a cat as part of a conjuring ritual to find buried treasure. He later became Bishop of London and a notorious heretic hunter, and was mockingly known as 'Bloody Bishop Christen-cat'.
Quote of the Day
"Is life not a hundred times too short - to get bored?
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~ Nietzsche
On This Day
1940 Winston Churchill orders the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo begins.