> Jeanne de Toulouse, virgin (fourteenth century)
>- when her body was translated in 1805, a manuscript prayer book
>was found beside her -- does anyone know anything about the practice
>of burying books with their owners?
Has anyone yet mentioned the Stoneyhurst Gospels, buried with St
Cuthbert, or the Coronation Gospels, apparently buried with
Charlemagne and recovered by Otto II during an examination of his
body in 1000?
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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