The Wanderings of Two Ancient Manuscripts

In 1926, the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York acquired a number of illuminated MSS. from the collection of the Earl of Leicester of Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Two of these are closely connected with this country’s history and with the fate that befell some of its leading personalities in the years immediately preceding the Norman Conquest. The correspondence columns of The Times, and a recent well-considered article in that paper, show that there is much concern about the continued loss through export to other countries of major works of art of historical importance.