Book of Hours

A family prayer book in its original binding with clasps and the remains of chain fastenings. Early memoranda in the book reveal the familys connection with Edmund Campion, the Jesuit executed in 1581 and with Robert Keyes, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators executed in 1605. Illustrated at p.34 of AR

Item date: 15th century
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 4,140
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: Derbyshire Record Office