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St Margaret's Gospel Book |
3 February 2009 |
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In 1887, the Bodleian Library in Oxford bought a medievalÌýGospel Book from an auction. It took the keen eye of a 22-year old scholar, Lucy Hill, to realise that an added poem at the front confirmed that the book’s original owner was Queen Margaret of Scotland. Living in the eleventh century, Margaret of Scotland was renowned for her goodness, learning and compassion, and after her death was canonised as a saint. Much of what modern scholars know about her life comes from her precious book - which she carried everywhere. St Margaret's Gospel Book is still kept at the Bodleian Library and one of the few to have studied it is Rebecca Rushforth, an expert in Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. She has now written her own book about it. When Lizz Pearson met Rebecca at the Library, she explained why the book was of such significance to Margaret.
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