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A royal church offering daily services for all and a World Heritage Site with over a thousand years of history.
Westminster, London westminster-abbey.org Joined February 2009
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The 14th-century Litlyngton Missal is one of the Abbey’s greatest treasures. The Latin manuscript contains the readings and prayers used at the celebration of the Mass, along with a calendar of festivals and saints’ days.

Its 682 pages are beautifully decorated with coloured inks and gold leaf and are framed by decorative borders. A scribe called Thomas Preston laid out the work and wrote the text. He was aided by two unknown artists who painted the 62 illuminated initials and the detailed decorative borders, which feature illustrations of saints, angels, animals, birds and coats of arms.

#Museum30 #Detail
An illuminated medieval manuscript detail featuring a central medallion with a blue, stylized lion or human-like face sticking out its tongue. The round medallion is enclosed in a dark, jagged border with gold accents and radiating black squiggles. A horizontal decorative band adorned with blue, red, and gold leafy patterns runs through the center. Intricate black ink flourishes with tiny leaf and bud motifs sprout from the top and bottom of the medallion. Below the illumination, black Gothic script reads "... umm. Omnia p...".
An illuminated medieval coat of arms set against a shimmering gold leaf background with scalloped edges on parchment paper. The shield is quarterly: the first and fourth quarters are dark grey with a diagonal blue band featuring three gold fleurs-de-lis; the second and third quarters feature a red and gold diamond lattice pattern. The shield is enclosed within an ornate quatrefoil border alternating in red and blue panels, adorned with tiny white crosses and white decorative scrolls. A delicate, twining blue vine with stylized blue, white, and red leaves extends horizontally behind the emblem, set on a gold band. Below, Gothic script is written in red, gold, and black ink, with a tiny, sketch-like illustration of a face in profile nested beside the letters on the right.
An illuminated medieval manuscript page with two columns of Gothic script. The text is framed by a highly detailed, symmetrical border of interwoven blue, red, and gold vines with delicate floral motifs. Inside the text, several large, decorative capital letters are embellished with gold leaf, red, and blue paint, some housing tiny illustrations, including a seated figure in a blue robe inside a prominent capital "B" on the upper left. Small, circular medallions containing painted figures are integrated into the top, bottom, and right sections of the outer border.
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