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A unique alphabet book, offering a selection of spectacular and bizarre fonts to the luxury medieval manuscript illuminator stuck for inspiration, has been bought by the British Library after a ...

A medieval christening font, found in use as a plant pot, has been used for its first baptism in 150 years. The reinstatement of the font was a central part of a £78,500 refurbishment project at Grade ...