Illuminated Pages Capturing a Fading World

The NY Times reviews “The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library.”

They say The New York Public Library is a great national resource. If it were a natural one, it would be forested with oil rigs and pocked with mines of gold and silver. Being a cultural resource, the library’s riches are truly inexhaustible, benefiting succeeding generations.