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Janet Backhouse

Janet Backhouse is an internationally respected manuscript expert and former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library. She is the author of many books on the subject, including: The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting (1997), The Hastings Hours (1996), The Lindesfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting (1995), and The Isabelle Breviary (1993). She has also collaborated on a number of exhibition catalogues, including The Making of England (1991), The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art (1984), and Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts (1984).