I don’t plan on making a habit of this, but… I just discovered a 2nd-hand bookstore on the Leidsegracht, specialised in art history with a large and lovely collection of illuminated manuscript reproductions. They have a complete colour-plate copy of the Lindisfarne Gospels, for a measly €130… I managed to resist that one, but got caught instead by the catalogue of an exhibition in Heidelberg, 1986, of manuscripts from the Palatine Library (a collection given in the 17th century to the Vatican library). 300 fullpage colour plates, of manuscripts from the 9th to the 17th centuries. And another 600 pages of catalogue information, sadly in German.

Good thing today was payday.