For centuries, a richly bound volume sat undisturbed within the quiet confines of a private library in a Leicestershire manor house. To the casual observer, it was merely an aging chronicle of English history. To historians and bibliophiles, however, it represents what experts are now calling "perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history […]

In the quiet corners of a Leicestershire manor house, a volume of immense historical gravity lay overlooked for nearly three centuries. Bound in weathered leather and emblazoned with the royal monogram of Mary I, the book—a 1555 edition of Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia—is far more than a mere chronicle of English kings. It contains a […]