Should relic kissing be allowed at the British Museum's Treasures of Heaven exhibit? from today's guardian.co.uk

head of a woman

from the Abbey at Cluny 

 Romanesque 12th century

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.7r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.7r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.64r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.64r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.63v

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.63v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.11r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.11r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.115v

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.115v, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.131r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.131r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.6r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.6r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.9r

Illuminated Manuscript, Claricia Psalter, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26, fol.9r, a photo by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts on Flickr.

four leaves from a large 11th century lectionary from Germany, two Latin bifolia from Sotheby's Western Manuscripts

Royal National Geographic Society's Antique Map Fair opens tomorrow

from the Examiner.com:

Metropolitan Museum of Art protects its fragile medieval artworks with high tech environmental sensors

from the Independent.ie
The Fadden More Psalter, discovered in a bog in 2006, is now on display at the National Museum in Dublin