Rothschild Prayerbook on Display at the National Library of Australia from May 2015

Australians will get their first look at one of the world’s most expensive illuminated manuscripts in May.

The National Library of Australia announced recently that the early sixteenth-century Rothschild prayerbook, owned by Australian businessman Kerry Stokes, will go on display for the first time in the southern hemisphere.

The prayer book will be on display at the National Library of Australia in Canberra from 22 May until 9 August.

For more on this, please visit: http://www.nla.gov.au/node/7835.