De Hamel brought from the vault a 1,000-year-old psalter - a book of psalms - and showed Poleg a note added to one of the final pages about 500 years ago, in the time of Matthew Parker.

A lavishly illustrated setting of the Psalms of David across 250 exquisitely crafted pages embellished with precious pigments and gold, the Psalter offers a glimpse into the Middle Ages ...