August
30
/ 2020
The British Library has digitized one of the most remarkable medieval books ever made in England. The Sherborne Missal contains many paintings on a vast array of subjects. Many of the images are masterpieces of English illumination art. Putting the Sherborne Missal into a digital format means that more people can admire this work of art and gain new insights into Medieval life. This work was produced for St Mary’s, a Benedictine monastery in Sherborne, Dorset, in the south-west of England and it was created by monks sometime between 1399 and 1407. The Sherborne Missal is a book with a set of texts for different mass services throughout the liturgical year. The British Library states that ‘Some of the texts
