Charles Davis writes “Here’s one from ‘Daily Telegraph‘ on A priceless medieval history book, printed and signed by William Caxton, is to be made available to the public after being locked in a town council’s safe for 83 years.
The Polychronicon, one of the first books to be printed in England and in mint condition, is being given to the Canterbury Cathedral library on permanent loan by Tenterden council, Kent, which was given the book in 1921.
It means that the work – written in Latin by Ranulph Hugden, a Benedictine monk, in 1360 and translated into Middle English by John of Trevisa, chaplain to Lord Thomas of Berkeley, in 1387 – will be available to historians and put on display at exhibitions for the first time.
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