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The cathedral has lent its 12th-century Bible to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Winchester Cathedral wants to track down eight Medieval illuminations that are missing from the greatest surviving 12th-century English Bible. These may have been stolen in the past 150 years, so there is a reasonable chance that they survive, probably unrecognised in a private collection. The Winchester Bible was commissioned by the cathedral’s bishop in 1160. Christopher de Hamel, a specialist in Medieval manuscripts, describes it as “the finest English illuminated manuscript outside the British Library”. It remained in Winchester and was never used as a working Bible, because not all of the illuminations had been completed.

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